entire world. as you can see from this event with 90 authors something like that and i don t know how many thousands of people coming through, it is the most active biggest club probably in the world of any kind and plus it is all journalism and it s all about the press and things we do that s really good stuff that a lot of people on the left and the right don t think we do well but we did extremely well. mr. aukofer, newspapers are shrinking. it s changing. where do you see newspapers in ten years? we are going to be around for a whole long time on paper and in print but we are also going to find other ways to deliver the news to people. but you re not going to take us away because i think there s an increasing realization on the part of the public that the only place you get really solid good reporting and our original information is on a newspaper. the rest of them just talk about what we do. author is frank aukofer, his new book never a slow day s adventures of a
that a naive, knee-jerk free-market point of view such as tom sexowl walter williams represent tells us very much moment in time. host: how much is your new book a followup to your previous book, how george w. bush bankrupted america and betrayed the reagan legacy? guest: that s a bit of a followup. that was more narrowly focused, but there was a lot in there that got me thinking about some of these issues, such as, you know, why is it that we had all these tax cuts during the 2000 s and they didn t do any good at all? i think it s because they were misdesigned and because, for partisan reasons ark lot of people talked themselves into believing that tax credits, which were essential the same thing as government spending, were somehow or another different and it was ok to have tax credits and not have tax rate reductions, and they just talked themselves into believing that whatever the white house wanted was good for the economy and it was just all, you know, i d say i d use