Posted on 04/08/2014 12:32:47 PM PDT by Academiadotorg
When academia practices real diversity, one wonders how long it can continue. It usually doesn’t, unfortunately.
Right now there is a crack in the Ivory Curtain in the person of Manuel Suarez-Mier, economist in residence at the School of International Service at American University. To call him politically incorrect would be an understatement. We mean that as a compliment.
“I contend that any organization that has to use the word democratic as an adjective is anything but,” Suarez Mier said at a conference in Chicago co-sponsored by the Atlas Network and the Illinois Policy Institute. “Think about it: The Democratic Republic of North Korea, the Democratic Republic of [East] Germany, the Democratic Party here.”
Suarez-Mier’s Atlas Network bio reveals that “he was the Chief of Staff for the Governor of the Bank of Mexico and the top economic diplomat in Washington at the time of the negotiations of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) between the U. S., Canada and Mexico.”
His background and government stints gave him, to put it mildly, a skeptical view of government agencies. “The United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America is one of the most useless organizations ever invented,” he told the crowd in Chicago.
A believer in free markets, in his current position he also goes against the grain of economic pedagogy. “Macroeconomics is a Keynesian invention,” he said in Chicago.
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LOL! Good line.
However, the video present along the right side on the site the link takes you to is very very interesting and well worth the watch.
ROTFL. Ain't that the truth? It's simpler to say, "“The United Nations is one of the most useless organizations ever invented.”
Is there ANY doubt that should the GOP collapse, with Pelosi/Reed(sicK) at the helm in ConGress, with 'Rats having the executive, that in a moment where they were searching for the next area to soil and dump on, that they would rename the US to be the "Democratic States of America"????
In our case, they'd leave out the word "republic".
All true! It’s the Left wing doing it’s usual destruction of language.
They probably have great parties and expense paid trips, though.
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