Reality, Not Romance

by Don Boudreaux on October 17, 2009

in Current Affairs, Politics, Seen and Unseen

George Will understands Washington’s realities.

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  • ArrowSmith
    Mao had good intentions too.
  • vikingvista
    "Half will be spent in 2010, an election year. Which suggests that Stimulus II is, and Stimulus III would be, primarily designed to save a few dozen jobs -- those of Democratic members of the House and Senate."

    Bingo.
  • Mommsen1625
    Much of the New Deal Spending in 1935 and 1936 was meant specifically to prop up the fortunes of the Democratic party. Does that mean that Keynesian counter-cyclical spending is the handmaiden for corruption?
  • vikingvista
    BHO said he admired FDR. Who knows, maybe the looter-in-chief will even surpass him.
  • Mommsen1625
    Well, I don't question the good intentions of the Obama administration.
  • vidyohs
    Well, I question the good intentions (as well as intelligence, experience, and education) of anyone who does not question the good intentions of government, particularly a socialist one.

    Truly in the case of facing socialism, if you aren't against it and work against it, then you aid and abet it. There is no middle ground.
  • vikingvista
    That middle ground is The Third Position.
  • vikingvista
    Of course not. Good intentions are always expressed at the end of a gun.
  • mark
    and they also pave the road to hell.
  • vikingvista
    I thought it was the "road to nowhere".
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