Posted on 12/13/2001 4:41:23 PM PST by ThJ1800
By John D. Donahue, NY Times, 12/13/01 CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- The market defines America. Labor markets organize our work; consumer markets structure our spending; securities markets shape our future. The idea of the market dominates our mythology: Americans are open to "market solutions" to public problems, from providing housing to improving education especially with a fumbling, inefficient government program cast as the alternative. Now this mythology may be changing. After 50 years of market ascendancy, government may be poised to reclaim its role as an integral and admirable part of American life. Whether it does so depends as much on how we view our public servants as on how we finance our public institutions and the work they do.
What?
I guess he didn't notice the incredible growth over the years of how much of the GDP the government takes, the strangelhold of regulation, and how many liberties we have lost.
As were the Clinton years, when and where "the left" obsessed about proving its economic theories ... right on up until the price of energy proved to be much more a "throttle" on the economy than socialist academia's mantra: interest rates. There were constant self-gratuities from the "higher-ups," with every C.P.I. and P.P.I. listing of economic data, but which reports always stated, "Discounting the cost of food and energy."
I always like that part, was anybody else listening?
I'm afraid there's more than a little grain of truth here. Thanks to Wall Street Greedheads (aided and abetted by corrupt Clintonista government) the economy is going to crash and crash hard over the next decade. And the "Free Market" will take the blame.
When the Baby Boomers's stocks and real estate evaporate and they see that they have NOTHING to retire on, they'll be BEGGING Uncle Sam to take care of them in their old age. And since there are so darn many of them, the policitians will be falling over each other to give them everything they want.
The pathetic liberals are really grasping, trying to interpret support for the military, a conservative cause, with support for the bureaucracy. These mfers are talking to themselves in an echo chamber.
I have a suspicion that we will see another grand sweep of liberals from congress in 2002, and they do not see the train a-coming. The arrogance of liberals in these circumstances and their misreading of the national mood reminds me of the revulsion to hillary klinton previous to 94. It's time to teach these punks another lesson.
These big government worshipers are truly sickening.
It's more likely that we recognize an equilibrium. There is no great support for major cuts or for major expansion of government right now. Based on the last 20 years, a liberal might call this a victory. Doing so means ignoring the much more exaggerated claims of Great Society liberalism. You can call almost any development in politics a victory if you really want to and if you define your terms in order to do so, but such a victory is very hollow indeed.
So much of the liberal attitude towards government is based on the Great Depression, when something like a quarter of our population were truly dependent on government for sustenance. We won't see anything like that any time soon. A more independent and self-reliant population can't help but regard the government with a good deal of skepticism -- though it might not think of it as the enemy.
Exactly. That's why I posted in September that the clintons have won: It took a republican administration to hand it all to them, but the clintons have achieved just about everything they ever wanted, and more.
This contrast, laid out in the contract w/ america, gave people a clear decision -- reasonable limitations on govt, or hillarycare.
I will grant you, the Repubs are terrible at selling their cause. So I won't discount anything, but I think the fundamentals are strongly in their favor. Whether they will force the liberals on their heels and make them answer for their failed policies is another question.
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