Posted on 01/06/2010 11:42:23 AM PST by bs9021
Voodoo Anyone? lauded in U.S. Senate
Malcolm A. Kline, January 6, 2010
Last month U. S. Senator Michael Enzi, R-Wyoming, recommended Accuracy in Academia’s new textbook to his colleagues in remarks on the Senate floor.
“I think this book was delivered to every office,” he noted. “I got one in my office.”
“It is called Voodoo Anyone? It is How to understand economics without really trying. I do hope every Senator finds their copy of this book and takes a look at it because it talks about prices, how prices are set, what affects prices, what happens when you fix prices.”
“Then it talks about health care and energy and education and crime and social and agriculture and labor and monopolies, and financial markets and government action.”
“I have never found a book that put it quite as succinctly or quite as understandably as this book does. We need to be paying some attention to the fixing prices part of it, for sure.”
“I read that to lead up to what he has on Medicare,” Sen. Enzi said. He made these remarks in the midst of the Senate debate over the transformation of American health care.....
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They can’t seem to read the constitution. What makes him think they can read this?
Much as I admire George Bush the Elder, I can’t forget him referring to Reagan’s Supply Side Economics as Voodoo Economics.
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