Matt Welch at CNN.com on Obama's Do-Something Plan for a Have-Nothing Government
CREDIT: Whitehouse.govWriting at CNN
Opinion, Reason Editor in Chief argues that President
Barack Obama's now-familiar philosophy of urging government
"investment" to create an ever-elusive "broad-based growth"
presents a fundamental conflict of visions with those who believe
that the federal government on balance hinders rather than hastens
prosperity. Thankfully if belatedly, Welch writes, there's a
politician giving
direct voice to the latter proposition. Excerpt:
"Let's cut in half the energy wasted by our homes and businesses over the next 20 years," said the president, who promised a "Recovery Through Retrofit" three years ago. "The American people deserve a tax code that ... lowers tax rates for businesses and manufacturers that create jobs right here in America," said the man who before he took office vowed to, uh, give "tax breaks to companies that are investing here in the United States."
That "aging infrastructure badly in need of repair"? Well, what happened to the $50 billion from the stimulus package dedicated to precisely that task, or the $50 billion plan 18 months later? Making college "more affordable"? That has been the motivation for continuous ratcheting of government involvement in higher education, which has -- surprise! -- coincided with a several-decade increase in tuition costs and student loan debt.
Do-something politics works when Americans have amnesia, or are reacting to headline-making tragedies, or when they just want free stuff. But this irresistible force is butting up against the immovable object of a have-nothing U.S. Treasury.
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By Matt Welch, special to CNN
Attention, Mr. and Mrs. America, and all the ships at sea!
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The comments at CNN are, as always, a hoot.
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Drumbum
Typical libertarian nonsense relies on false truths, misconceptions and deliberate dishonesty. They appeal to the ignorant and their act only works if you don't know any better. Libertarians always spend more time falsy characterizing and misrepresenting policies than than they do presenting thier own ideas. If they had a better idea, they would not need all the lies in presenting it.And of course, he doesn't mention even 1 example of a "false truth, misconception" or "deliberate dishonesty", thus sparing him the trouble of actually proving what he claims. And also ignoring all the "better ideas" that libertarians DO come up with, making the assumption that the many (unnamed) proposals aren't better without having to make any actual counter-arguments.
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They think we can just spend and spend, and spend their entire lives painting everyone who isn't a liberal with the broadest fucking brush possible, all while living in the land of cognitive dissonance, and somehow WE'RE the ones who don't live in reality?
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"False truth".
This progtard meme seems pretty young. I'm sick of it already.