Mon, 23 Feb 2009 20:50:01
Stimulus, spending and raising taxes during a severe recession: why would they do this?
This is why.
“It’s not about fixing the economy; it’s about proving Reagan wrong.” It’s about proving that an enlightened government is superior to a country led by tens of millions of individual sovereign decision makers.
Yep. Doesn’t matter that we all know for a fact that it is not a sustainable form of government. Common sense alone tells you what a disaster we have on our hands. If you’ve ever decided what bill not to pay in a given month, or taken a cash advance off Visa to pay MasterCard, you know. None of that matters. They just want to try to prove Reagan (he’s representative of the movement, it’s not necessarily Reagan himself) wrong and train a new generation to expect Uncle Sam to deal with everything.
That’s the part Bob Krum missed. This is also about training the next two or three generations to be dependent on the federal government. Hence the maneuvering to belittle and marginalize any state government that doesn’t want a federal bailout. If no one expects the federal government to actually be small, there’s no reason to try to make it small, is there?
Posted by JimK at 08:50 PM on February 23, 2009
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#3 Posted by DeanG 
on 02/25 at 08:42 PM -
“It’s not about fixing the economy; it’s about proving Reagan wrong.” It’s about proving that an enlightened government is superior to a country led by tens of millions of individual sovereign decision makers.
That is a complete oxymoron, the enlightenment movement was about proving how superior a country let by individual sovereign decision makers was superior to an enlightened leader (or King in the case of the actual enlightenment movement).
It’s liberal newspeak at its best. Kind of like calling Liberalism “progressive” when it is actually trying to return us to being subjects of a totalitarian government, rather than patrons of a republican one.
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