Posted on 04/17/2009 7:21:27 PM PDT by sickoflibs
If you realize both parties in Washington think our money is theirs and you trust them to do the wrong thing, this list is for you.
If you think there is a Santa Claus who is going to get elected in Washington and cut a few taxes and spend a few trillion and jump start the economy, and get our lost money back, this list is not for you.
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Sample: "If we are going to rebuild our economy on a solid foundation, the market, not the government, needs to draw the plans. When private citizens invest their own capital, those who invest wisely are rewarded with profits, while those who do not are punished with losses. Bad investments are therefore abandoned, with capital reallocated to more successful ventures. Conversely, when governments invest money, these checks and balances do not exist. There is nothing to correct bad investments, as losses are endlessly subsidized by taxpayers. In fact, the more a government plan fails, the more it tends to be funded in the hope that additional resources will finally achieve success. "
I’m sure they told Obama at Harvard that we’re all Keynesians now. But we aren’t. Paul Krugman does not speak for the entire field.
There may be some truth to it. Look at the poor advice Republican economist give to their own leaders. Ppl like Art Laffer, Steve Forbes, Kudlow. Republicans to be sure, but they’re all crap at economics
This sound so much like Ronald Reagon’s Time of Choosing speech. “As more the government plan fails, the more the government plan”
I don’t believe a word of this crap. If my household, my village, my county, or my state proposed to operate on such silly pills, I would oppose it. Where does Obamaitchkinovski get off with such communism, socialism, fascism and general ignoramusism? Is this an Ivy League disease? Is there a cure for this crap? Do highly educated people just automatically cash in whatever brains they might have had in their youth for the celebrity of degrees from what have become wealthy, but very peculiar, colleges and universities dedicated to reducing the bright and able to idiocy in only a few years?
lonestar67 : “I am just pointing out that your arguments are sold out to the Democratic party and its radical Left Wing. I thought you would want to know. The Bush economy was quite good and there is precious little you can do to change that fact. I am personally thrilled that the tanking of the economy coincides with the emergence of Obama as the presumed leader of the nation. What we ought to wonder is what purpose is served by sickoflibs’ arguments.I argue that sickoflibs arguments serve the purpose of diminishing powerful conservative voices in favor of an anonymous internet voice.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2230877/posts?page=48#48
***If the government simply builds bridges to nowhere, society gains nothing.***
Don’t tell the Keynesians.
Forbes is a businessman, not an economist. I don’t follow Kudlow, so I can’t speak to his latent Keynesianism. I can’t say what Laffer contributed policywise, but I’ve heard him speak since the meltdown, and have found him to be reliably free-market.
Not to say that there aren’t Keynesian Republicans. i’m sure they’re out there, and I’m sure they’re the ones that rose to the surface when Bush took power, like a bloated body in the Potomac.
Thanks for the ping.
“Don’t tell the Keynesians.”
They already know, and don’t care. I’m pretty sure Keynes himself actually came out and said we could dig holes and fill them in, so long as money is spent.
Why dont we have someone as articulate at Schiff in Republican(democrat light ) party.
Well, as they say go big or go home and that applies to flat out lying so why wouldn’t he say this? When the premise is to roll over the useful idiots with “facts” that they can then robotically repeat over and over again it doesn’t really matter much what the truth of the story is...
3 years, 9 months to go until we can come together as a conservative movement and vote out this lunacy!!
WWII got us out of the great depression, not Keynesian policies or the New Deal, they just prolonged it. Apparently we need WWV to get us out of this great recession.
Bambi can say it b ut we don’t gotta believe it...
RE “Apparently we need WWV to get us out of this great recession.”
WWII We had a high savings rate and a low trade deficit and after the war world industry was destroyed except ours. Now we owe everyone and have only more debt to offer,
Now we owe everyone and have only more debt to offer... and have little industry, by comparison.
***3 years, 9 months to go until we can come together as a conservative movement and vote out this lunacy!!***
I’m planning a revolution well before then :)
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