I believe there is common ground between conservatives and liberals. It's progressivism that throws a rust-pocked, warped wrench into the gears of government. Perhaps both the democrats and the republicans could work on delousing their respective parties from this plague of indoctrination and stupidity, and together we can wrestle our country's engine back onto the right track.
A snippet from the article:
If you’re looking for one overarching explanation for the still-terrible job market, it is this great consumer bust. Business executives are only rational to hold back on hiring if they do not know when their customers will fully return. Consumers, for their part, are coping with a sharp loss of wealth and an uncertain future (and many have discovered that they don’t need to buy a new car or stove every few years). Both consumers and executives are easily frightened by the latest economic problem, be it rising gas prices or the debt-ceiling impasse.
If you have time, you can read it all here.
Excellent until the last 4 paragraphs, when the author exposes his Keynesian, 'only government can help' beliefs.
ReplyDeleteActually, he'd done the Keynesian bit before that, but in the last 4, he really laid it on.
Sorry, folks, but if you want to give me enough confidence to spend more, then get the damned government out of the way. In other words; Less spending, not more - Less debt, not more - Less high-handed "we're smarter than you" regulation to keep prices of essentials going up, and costs of energy ricketing up.
The article was not spittle-flecked, certainly but simply reasonable in its wrongness.