Sowell is right. If nothing can be done, at least we might be able to stop the bleeding.
Thanks for the ping jaz. Of course he’s right.
The seductive notion that some Big Daddy in Washington can solve our problems for us— whether healing the sick, preventing poverty or "growing the economy"— is encouraged by politicians for obvious reasons,. . . which would be that it takes character to restrain yourself from overpromising when you are running for election
. . . and the media echo the idea. . . for the simple reason that journalism is political - and journalism's self interest is the same as that of the overpromising politician. Journalism, too, is all talk and hype - with its claims of objectivity, and its flattery of its readership's public-spiritedness.
I like gridlock.
And shutdowns.
Except I’d like it more if they were working to ELIMINATE laws. That’s the only problem with gridlock these days.