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Did Obama Just Throw Keynes Under the Bus?
BenjaminShapiro.com ^ | 02-11-10 | Ben Shapiro

Posted on 02/11/2010 8:14:01 AM PST by UltraConservative

Today, President Obama made the most stunning remarks on the economy he has made during his tenure:

"For growth to be truly sustainable -- for our prosperity to be truly shared and our living standards to actually rise -- we need to move beyond an economy that is fueled by budget deficits and consumer demand," the president said.

"In other words, in order to create jobs and raise incomes for the middle class over the long run, we need to export more and borrow less from around the world, and we need to save more money and take on less debt here at home."

This is an incredible admission from the nation's leading advocate of inflating and spending your way out of recession ...

Read more here.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: hayek; keynes; obama; shapiro
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1 posted on 02/11/2010 8:14:02 AM PST by UltraConservative
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To: UltraConservative

Don’t pay any attention the whatever he says. It’s what he DOES that matters. He’ll say anything that will get his poll numbers above 50% and do absolutely the opposite of what he says...............


2 posted on 02/11/2010 8:16:26 AM PST by Red Badger (Education makes people easy to lead, difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.)
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To: UltraConservative

rhetoric


3 posted on 02/11/2010 8:16:41 AM PST by Cheap_Hessian (I am the Grim FReeper.)
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To: UltraConservative

Is Zero taking a page out of Clintoon’s Presidency? We will have to wait and see. Zero is good at SAYING one thing and DOING the exact opposite.


4 posted on 02/11/2010 8:16:47 AM PST by originalbuckeye
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To: UltraConservative

Zer0 is still a f’n retarded empty suit.


5 posted on 02/11/2010 8:18:39 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: Red Badger

muzzies lie... it is what they do best... that and chopping heads off.

LLS


6 posted on 02/11/2010 8:19:05 AM PST by LibLieSlayer (hussama will never be my president... NEVER!)
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To: Red Badger

That’s what his lackeys are for. To do the exact opposite of what he says. I’m amazed that there are still people on the right who haven’t figured it out yet.


7 posted on 02/11/2010 8:19:36 AM PST by cripplecreek (Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
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To: originalbuckeye

Do not pay attention to what Obama says. He will say ANYTHING. We only need pay attention to what he does. Once more people figure out that his words mean nothing, they will pay attention to his policies which are destroying the country.


8 posted on 02/11/2010 8:21:14 AM PST by milwguy
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To: UltraConservative

He is really just saying that he wants to purposely devalue the dollar to nominally increase wages and artificially boost exports. That’s a great plan.


9 posted on 02/11/2010 8:21:49 AM PST by Cheap_Hessian (I am the Grim FReeper.)
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To: Cheap_Hessian
Yes, it's unfortunate that he doesn't really mean it, because his statement is correct.

Excess consumption combined with massive Bismarckian social welfare is a guaranteed failure, and we're seeing it play across Europe now, and America pretty soon.

True economic strength is based upon things like the use of natural resources, agriculture, and industrial production.

10 posted on 02/11/2010 8:22:16 AM PST by jpl
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To: UltraConservative
Kill the UAW and the economy will take off like a rocket-ship.
11 posted on 02/11/2010 8:22:56 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Islam is a religion of peace, and Muslims reserve the right to kill anyone who says otherwise.)
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To: UltraConservative
Just distracting us so he can throw us under!
12 posted on 02/11/2010 8:24:34 AM PST by Kartographer (".. we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.")
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To: UltraConservative

This is Keynesian. That philosophy isn’t just “spend your way out of a recession”, it also rails against perpetual trade deficits and argues for the implementation of tariffs to arrest their growth. Obama is 100% on board with Keynesian economic policies, and this further cements that fact.


13 posted on 02/11/2010 8:24:39 AM PST by Nova442 ("Cry Havoc and let slip the Dogs of War.")
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"In other words, in order to create jobs and raise incomes for the middle class over the long run, we need to export more...

OK, so how do you export more when you've priced your local labor higher than global labor? Oh, that's right--import more illegal labor and let employers pay them slave wages while you look the other way.

14 posted on 02/11/2010 8:25:37 AM PST by randog (Tap into America!)
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To: UltraConservative

all democrats talk like republicans when they get worried about re-election


15 posted on 02/11/2010 8:26:23 AM PST by silverleaf (My Proposed Federal Budget is $29.99)
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-- we need to move beyond an economy that is fueled by budget deficits and consumer demand," the president said.

Coming from the same guy who last week submitted a budget with an astronomicle, record smashing 1.5 TRILLION dollar deficit.

The disconnnect between what this man says and what he does is impossible. He's either a blatant craven liar who really believes EVERYONE who hears him is a deluded moron, or he himself is a deluded moron.

Incredible.

16 posted on 02/11/2010 8:27:17 AM PST by AAABEST (Et lux in tenebris lucet: et tenebrae eam non comprehenderunt)
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To: UltraConservative

“....we need to move beyond an economy that is fueled by budget deficits and consumer demand,” the president said.”

Well...I am glad to hear he plans to repeal NAFTA.....


17 posted on 02/11/2010 8:28:56 AM PST by mo
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To: silverleaf
all democrats talk like republicans when they get worried about re-election

Just like the RINOs that talk like conservatives every election cycle.

18 posted on 02/11/2010 8:35:03 AM PST by houeto (Remember in November!)
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To: UltraConservative
0bama is becoming Clintoon.

What he is saying are focus-group vetted phrases.


19 posted on 02/11/2010 8:36:19 AM PST by Uri’el-2012 (Psalm 119:174 I long for Your salvation, YHvH, Your law is my delight.)
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To: houeto

yeppers- RINO’s campaign like conservatives and govern like democrats

and democrats campaign like conservatives and govern like, well, democrats

D.OH! Time to clean House, bottom to top


20 posted on 02/11/2010 8:38:04 AM PST by silverleaf (My Proposed Federal Budget is $29.99)
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