On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 11:49 PM, denstar <valliants...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 11:56 PM, Robert Munn wrote: >> >> On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 9:58 PM, Jerry Barnes wrote: >> >>> it is a triumph >>> of hope over experience to believe that more government spending will help >>> the U.S. today. >> >> a triumph of emotion over reason > > Hey man, we're not robots, or like, some kind of scary-smart space aliens! >
Well there you have it. The 2008 crash scared the sh!t out of almost everyone in the US and in many other countries. The US public reacted by electing a man who admires european socialist economic theory for its ability to redistribute wealth (by making everyone poorer). So does Obama just not get it? No, he gets it completely. He understands that the economic theories he believes in will not result in the most wealth being generated in the economy. Economic effectiveness comes in a distant second to "social justice" in his selection criteria, he has said so himself. So what is a guy who inherits a recession to do? In the President's case, he pinned his political fortunes on a $787 billion stimulus program that has done little to stimulate demand or restart the economy, and a health care bill that turns out not to be wildly popular. In Barack Obama we see the triumph of emotion over reason. Admirable in a community organizer, but in the leader of the free world, not so much. Ironically, it is much the same criticism of Bush that the Left made after 9/11 in the run-up to the Iraq War. In Bush's case, the ding was that he was a cowboy who shot from the hip and put religious conviction and his gut instinct (emotion) ahead of critical analysis and deliberation (reason). Obama and the Democrats are paying the price for not focusing on the economy ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:324499 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
