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July 25, 2012
"The failure of central planning and state-managed economies is one of the big themes of the 20th century. But Obama’s handlers have yet to tell him."
Why would they? They don't know it either (the tenured? Of all people!), plus he'd refuse to believe them anyway,just as is true of at least half the citizenry. And anyone with a financial interest in the status quo will be impervious as well -- the millions of state employees, bureaucrats, public school teachers, state college administrators, and other assorted dependents and rent seekers; and more generally that half of the population that is able to tax the other half for what it imagines is a lifetime of free lunches. Even so, these people are motivated as much by creed as they are by greed. -- One Cʘsmos: Penetrating to the Core of Leftist Rot: Rules for Ridicule
Posted by gerardvanderleun at July 25, 2012 8:32 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.