Reality, Not Romance

Mao had good intentions too.

"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.

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?

BHO said he admired FDR. Who knows, maybe the looter-in-chief will even surpass him.

Well, I don't question the good intentions of the Obama administration.

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.

That middle ground is The Third Position.

Of course not. Good intentions are always expressed at the end of a gun.

and they also pave the road to hell.

I thought it was the "road to nowhere".