Subject: Unintended - but predictable - effects

Posted by Richard Turnock on 1/17/2009
In Reply To:Unintended - but predictable - effects Posted by Michael Round on 1/16/2009

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What (if anything) can be done to (re) educate this class of citizens in proper thinking?
Mike Round
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Sorry Mike, nothing can be done to uneducated and re-educate citizens. But we can convince lawmakers to (not make st**** mistakes) think critically before they vote.
I thought Rich Lowry’s recent column was so far out that no one in their right mind would repeat the mistakes of the FDR administration in the 1930’s. You don’t need to understand SD to read about the mistakes of the past.
Richard

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Do We Really Want Another New Deal? New Deal nostalgics forget the elements of Roosevelt’s program that were frankly absurd and economically ruinous.
By Rich Lowry
Barack Obama’s lefty admirers are agitating for a new New Deal. We’ll know that we’ve achieved that blessed state when the government destroys 6 million baby pigs—turning many of them into grease and fertilizer (anything but food)—to prop up the price of pork. Or when it plows under a quarter of the South’s cotton and slaughters pregnant cows.

American agricultural policy remains perverse to this day, but nobody is calling for the willy-nilly destruction of American crops and livestock as a means of checking deflation and fostering economic recovery. New Deal nostalgics forget all the elements of Franklin Roosevelt’s program that were frankly absurd and economically ruinous.
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