[iowamark]

“If you’re asking if the United States is about to become a socialist state, I’d say it’s actually about to become a European state, with the expansiveness of the welfare system and the progressive tax system like what we’ve already experienced in Western Europe,” Harvard business and history professor Niall Ferguson declared during Monday’s kickoff session, offering a withering critique of Obama’s economic policies, which he claimed were encouraging laziness.

“The curse of longterm unemployment is that if you pay people to do nothing, they’ll find themselves doing nothing for very long periods of time,” Ferguson said

[Tagurit]

First Paul McCartney, now there’s Jimmy Buffet & Bra bra. I’m sure Ozzy will soon have a reliably intellectual opinion to share. Shut up and sing. Better yet, just shut up!