Waking Up to Hillary’s Big-Government Nightmare

NRO ^ | 19 Apr 06 | Larry Kudlow

[rellimpank]

theory it will put Chicago to sleep; in reality it will sink the economy.

The ballroom was packed with a who’s who of business when Sen. Hillary Clinton addressed the Chicago Economic Club last week. No doubt about it, this was the address of a presidential hopeful. But unfortunately for Mrs. Clinton, the eyelids grew heavy as she droned on and on.

Sleep, it seems, was the better option to suffering through this odd and curious presentation. On the one hand Clinton acknowledged a growing economy, a stock market at historic highs, strong productivity and profits, and low unemployment, while on the other she called for big-government investment in infrastructure and heavy spending on health care and education. These two hands

[snowrip]

The senator argued that “Tax cuts are not the cure-all for everything that ails the American economy,”

Uhhhh... that IS EXACTLY what they are, and always have been. Was Hitlery honestly expecting a roomful of financial people to buy her version of the Communist party line? Her husband's idea of econmoic prosperity brought us into the new millenium with the worst recession in two decades... an economic predicament that tax cuts brought us out of.

[snowrip]

“America did not build the greatest economy in the world because we have rich people. Nearly any society has some of those.”

Sorry, but what country has the greatest number of millionaires? And what country has historically had the strongest economy?

BTW, who does hillary think hires those in need of a job... the poor?

[manwiththehands]

“Tax cuts are not the cure-all for everything that ails the American economy,”

"... that IS EXACTLY what they are, and always have been. "

BZZZZZZ!!!! Wrong answer!!!

Tax cuts help, but tax cuts coupled with spending INCREASES don't solve a thing.

[GeorgefromGeorgia]

Marxism redux.
From each according to their ability to each according to their need.

[genghis]

if there were not so many graduates of public schools, and so many stupid people, we would have a better chance of knocking her down.
Non existent logic and historical licenses may be enough for Mrs. Klintoon to win.

[reformedliberal]

...who does hillary think hires those in need of a job... the poor?

She thinks it is the government. Take a look at most third world countries with a socialistic bent and you will see the model.

Of course, she intends to remain one of the rich people.

[snowrip]

Tax cuts help, but tax cuts coupled with spending INCREASES don't solve a thing.

Uh, yeah, and I agree becuase that's common knowledge... but that has nothing to do with what I posted.

Settle down.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

The last report was that there are 9 million millionaires in the US.

If they all cut a $1,000,000 check to the US Treasury, there would be no federal government debt.

(Social Security not included.)

[snowrip]

Every time I hear some big-government cheerleader breathlessly sobbing about how the government must solve everyone's ills, I think of that single, brilliant line from George Orwell's classic illustration of socialism, "Animal Farm"...All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.

Government has nothing, save what it takes from those who produce. To give more to those who do not produce, it must take more from those that do, and on and on and on, until the only ones left are those who are strong enough and smart enough to carry everyone else. "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need"... could Ayn Rand have hit it more out of the park in predicting what liberalism would have in store for us?

[WideGlide]

The last report was that there are 9 million millionaires in the US.

No, that was not 9 million millionaires, it was 9 million undocumented guest workers. (:^*)

[ops33]

You are correct. I have never seen any country or society that was able to tax itself to prosperity.

[snowrip]

That's because there aren't any. Even Europe, who has tried to fashion itself into the EU, has only bought itself a little time. It's collapsing under its own weight.

[GeorgefromGeorgia]

America was created by people that wanted individual freedom. Not just the Bill of Rights, but freedom from government. FDR started us down the road and LBJ moved us along. Only Reagan was able to reverse the movement toward state power. Unfortunately, too many Americans expect government to take care of them. It is like the government owes them something.

I am a lawyer for the military. Several years ago, I worked in the Pentagon and we had law student interns that worked in our office. I remember one of my colleagues reminding some of the interns that if they did not find a job right out of law school that they could collect unemployment. I spoke up. For lawyers that would within a few years be making six figure incomes, I considered it a matter of pride and personal honor NOT to seek a handout like unemployment. I indicated that I would work at McDonald's before I would take unemployment. After it was over one of the interns came to me and said he was proud that I spoke up, and he agreed. Too many people, even middle class people have such an attitude.

[Mia T]

Clinton Administration Veteran:
"Hillary Rodham Clinton needs to be kept very far away from the White House for the rest of her life."

My two cents' worth--and I think it is the two cents' worth of everybody who worked for the Clinton Administration health care reform effort of 1993-1994--is that Hillary Rodham Clinton needs to be kept very far away from the White House for the rest of her life. Heading up health-care reform was the only major administrative job she has ever tried to do. And she was a complete flop at it. She had neither the grasp of policy substance, the managerial skills, nor the political smarts to do the job she was then given. And she wasn't smart enough to realize that she was in over her head and had to get out of the Health Care Czar role quickly.... there is no reason to think that she would be anything but an abysmal president.

J. Bradford DeLong
professor of economics, Berkeley
clinton Administration veteran

Hillary Clinton?
Who would even know her name were it not for her attachment to a man?

Thank you, Gavin McNett, for your tribute to the incomparable Tammy Wynette. (TAMMY WYNETTE, 1942-1998)

Too many pundits, usually leftist and privileged, sneer at country music. To these critics, any music created by poor, Southern whites (at least those poor, Southern whites who didn't attend an Ivy League university) must be held in contempt, along with its correlatives: incest, racism and trailer parks.

Hillary Clinton? Who would even know her name were it not for her attachment to a man? Where would she be now if she as a child had to pick cotton from sun up to sun down?

Tammy Wynette stands alone, a legend; and she will be admired wherever people appreciate the honesty of the human experience. Human beings are vulnerable. We all should be thankful to any artist courageous enough to bare her soul on the public stage so the rest of us who are listening and know whereof she speaks might benefit.

Sean Smith
Fresno, Calif.
Salon.com

COPYRIGHT MIA T 2006

[pabianice]

Marxism, pure and simple. She'd destroy the country.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

I read 22 million undocumented guest workers.

I'm going to guess that very few of these are millionaires, but who knows. ;)

[Wolfie]

I'll settle for waking up from Bush's.

[ChessExpert]

"I read 22 million undocumented guest workers. "

With an American economic depression, some would go home.