United States of Argentina
The American Conservative
by Philip Jenkins
Anyone not alarmed by the state of the U.S. economy is not paying attention. As our Dear Leader begins his term, the theory of very big government has the support of an alarmingly broad political consensus. Despite the obvious dangers — devastating inflation and the ruin of the dollar — the United States seems pledged to a debt-funded spending spree of gargantuan proportions. In opposing this trend, critics face the problem that the perils to which they point sound very theoretical and abstract. Perhaps Zimbabwe prints its currency in multi-trillion units, but that’s a singularly backward African dictatorship: the situation has nothing to do with us. Yet an example closer to home might be more instructive... (for publication 02/09/09)
http://www.amconmag.com/article/2009/feb/09/00006/
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=U.S.+economy
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Philip+Jenkins
by Philip Jenkins
Anyone not alarmed by the state of the U.S. economy is not paying attention. As our Dear Leader begins his term, the theory of very big government has the support of an alarmingly broad political consensus. Despite the obvious dangers — devastating inflation and the ruin of the dollar — the United States seems pledged to a debt-funded spending spree of gargantuan proportions. In opposing this trend, critics face the problem that the perils to which they point sound very theoretical and abstract. Perhaps Zimbabwe prints its currency in multi-trillion units, but that’s a singularly backward African dictatorship: the situation has nothing to do with us. Yet an example closer to home might be more instructive... (for publication 02/09/09)
http://www.amconmag.com/article/2009/feb/09/00006/
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=U.S.+economy
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Philip+Jenkins
rudkla - 3. Feb, 11:34
