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February 14, 2012 | Subscribe via RSS
Here’s a sleazy piece of demagoguery:
A non sequitur, to be sure. But a highly convenient one.
Politicians in Alabama and Georgia are cashing in on immigration fears to buy votes, but everyone pays, as Scott Beaulier, Darrick Luke and Daniel Smith explain. Robert Higgs asks if regime uncertainty explains the current malaise. Andrew Morriss marvels at how much better we live than Elvis did. Gary Chartier asks who’s really on the side of the poor and Robert Murphy says the Euro shows how little one can expect from a currency born entirely of government.
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Comment by Adam on 11 February 2009:
It is also an extremely common fallacy to find when just talking with average people about the bailout package. I’m loath to repeat anything that GOP members inside the Beltway are saying, but in the final analysis, government spending is wrong, irrespective of which party is doing it.
Comment by Carl Clegg on 11 February 2009:
Obama said “The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works…We’re guided by what works, not by any ideology ” If he is sincere, then he should take a look at the cold facts and compare how well tax cuts, deregulation, cutting government spending worked during the Reagan era and the impact that these measures had on healing a dysfunctional economy — and compare that to the spendy frenzy of FDR and the “lost decade” that followed in the 1930s. Peter Ferrara very eloquently points out in today’s opinion page of the WSJ that “a natural economic recovery will begin sometime this year, not because of the president’s policies, but because soon this will be the longest recession since World War II. However, thanks to the administration’s retrograde policies — cut from the cloth of the 1970s and even the 1930s — the recovery will not be what it should be. Rather, unemployment will remain too high, and inflation will resurge, recreating the disastrous economic results we suffered the last time Keynesian policies were dominant.”Amen.