Comments on: Bush Babbles About Government Job Creation

By: Frank Zavisca

Frank Zavisca — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 23:54:21 +0000

Sorry – Ilana –

Iraq can’t favor private over public sector because the private sector is in worse shape than the public sector.

[Spoken like a true neocon. I guess, like Bill O’Reilly, you’ve gone to the Iraqi markets to see how these heroic people are still trading… Didn’t think so. No, those–like O’Reilly, Rice, and Rummy–who hunker down in the Green Zone–they are the True Heroes.–ILANA]

By: Stephen Bernier

Stephen Bernier — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 17:22:53 +0000

President Bush is a small government, constitutionally adept politician? Please! He is nothing more than a socialist that only cares about how to enslave the American people. Three cheers for the dictatorship of the proletariate.

By: Dan Maguire

Dan Maguire — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 15:30:19 +0000

One of my favorite thinkers, Dr. Thomas Sowell, offered a soft-spoken yet razor sharp critique of economic airheads a few weeks ago. In an essay called “Hollywood Economics”, Sowell took to task the loudmouths who protest Starbucks’ wages to Ethipian coffee growers. He writes, “Are the Ethiopian coffee growers worse off now that Starbucks is buying their beans? The laws of supply and demand would suggest otherwise. But then, moral crusaders seldom have time for economics.”

Indeed. Those without time for economics can be found among the more-aid-for-the-poor types and the wage-war-for-democracy types. We do no good for Ethiopian coffee growers if we demand that Starbucks pay them American wages. We do no good for Iraqis if we bomb the crap out of them, creating a chaotic mess impossible to run a business in – even after the benevolent public works program offered by Bush.

My kingdom for a Return to Reason.

By: james huggins

james huggins — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 14:13:06 +0000

Bush doesn’t understand the pitfalls of central planning? That’s OK. Most Americans don’t either.