We pay them to lie to us
Freedom Politics
by John Stossel
11/25/09
When you knowingly pay someone to lie to you, we call the deceiver an illusionist or a magician. When you unwittingly pay someone to do the same thing, I call him a politician. President Obama insists that health care ‘reform’ not ‘add a dime’ to the budget deficit, which daily grows to ever more frightening levels. So the House-passed bill and the one the Senate now deliberates both claim to cost less than $900 billion. Somehow ‘$900 billion over 10 years’ has been decreed to be a magical figure that will not increase the deficit...
http://tinyurl.com/ygc2ga3
The house that Uncle Sam built
Foundation for Economic Education
by Steven Horwitz & Peter Boettke
12/02/09
The Great Recession (or the Great Hangover) that began in 2008 did not have to happen. Its causes and consequences are not mysterious. Indeed, this particular and very painful episode affirms what the best nonpartisan economists have tried to tell our politicians and policy-makers for decades, namely, that the more they try to inflate and direct the economy, the more damage the rest of us will suffer sooner or later. Hindsight is always 20-20, but in this instance, good old-fashioned common sense would have provided all the foresight needed to avoid the mess we’re in...
http://fee.org/doc/the-house-that-uncle-sam-built/
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=budget+deficit
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=recession
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=healthcare
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=John+Stossel
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Steven+Horwitz
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Peter+Boettke
by John Stossel
11/25/09
When you knowingly pay someone to lie to you, we call the deceiver an illusionist or a magician. When you unwittingly pay someone to do the same thing, I call him a politician. President Obama insists that health care ‘reform’ not ‘add a dime’ to the budget deficit, which daily grows to ever more frightening levels. So the House-passed bill and the one the Senate now deliberates both claim to cost less than $900 billion. Somehow ‘$900 billion over 10 years’ has been decreed to be a magical figure that will not increase the deficit...
http://tinyurl.com/ygc2ga3
The house that Uncle Sam built
Foundation for Economic Education
by Steven Horwitz & Peter Boettke
12/02/09
The Great Recession (or the Great Hangover) that began in 2008 did not have to happen. Its causes and consequences are not mysterious. Indeed, this particular and very painful episode affirms what the best nonpartisan economists have tried to tell our politicians and policy-makers for decades, namely, that the more they try to inflate and direct the economy, the more damage the rest of us will suffer sooner or later. Hindsight is always 20-20, but in this instance, good old-fashioned common sense would have provided all the foresight needed to avoid the mess we’re in...
http://fee.org/doc/the-house-that-uncle-sam-built/
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=budget+deficit
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=recession
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=healthcare
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=John+Stossel
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Steven+Horwitz
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Peter+Boettke
rudkla - 3. Dez, 10:09
