Posted on 08/02/2011 3:42:28 AM PDT by sinanju
Although pro-free market, economist Herb Stein had a strong anti-doctrinaire and pragmatic streak that led to him being described as “a liberal’s conservative and a conservative’s liberal.” Ben Stein seems to have taken up a similar niche.
$400 per child is just a Dem-type spending program to get people to vote for you. Bush's economic policy was perfectly miserable; I can't stand when people defend it just because he was an R.
If you look at the Paul Ryan plan, he understands supply side. Not that it could pass. Also, they sold it as a deficit reduction plan, not a jobs plan, and that was a mistake as well (because it adds too much debt).
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