Matt Miller, Left, Right & Centre… KCRW

If you want to make the case for pessimism. It’s a little bit sad when Democrats have to count on a Depression to put through the kind of minimal social protections that most other advanced nations take for granted.

Absolutely Matt (and once more it is refreshing to hear a self-described moderate and centrist and one time deficit hawk speaking a language that some of our left would find difficult to articulate), but he clearly hasn’t been to Ireland where some are counting on it to take away the kind of minimal social protections that most other nations take for granted.