HOLY SHIT I'M AGREEING WITH THOMAS SOWELL
From Thomas Sowell's Random Thoughts:
I realized how far behind the times I am when I saw a TV commercial for some weight-loss product, showing Marie Osmond "before" and "after." I thought she looked great "before."
At first, I wondered if I had woken up in some sort of fucked-up Bizarro World, where Thomas Sowell is sane, Spock has a goatee, the Brigadier has an eyepatch and there are zeppelins in the sky, but then, I was reassured to see him say this:
The great sense of urgency of the Obama administration to get legislation to authorize slow-moving spending projects may seem inconsistent. But the urgency is real, even if the reasons given are not. The worse case scenario for the administration would be to have the economy begin to recover on its own before this massive spending bill is passed, reducing their chances of creating the kind of politically directed economy they want.
Whew! Thomas Sowell, still batshit enough to believe that FDR's New Deal prolonged the Great Depression, or that we'll be anywhere close to clear of this recession anytime sooner than three years from now? I guess that means I'm still on Earth-Prime, then.
Still, I was able to make at least one more of his statements in that column accurate, with a simple substitution edit:
War A stimulus should of course be "a last resort"-- but last in terms of preference, not last in the sense of hoping against hope while dangers grow, and wishful thinking or illusory agreements substitute for serious military economic preparedness-- or, if necessary, military economic action. As Franklin D. Roosevelt said, "If you wait until you see the whites of their eyes, you will never know what hit you."
More military deployments? Sure, why not? The military's job is to "do or die," after all, so if they're going to die anyway, they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population. [/Scrooge]
But salary caps on executives? HOLY SHIT FUCKBALLS HOW DARE YOU SUGGEST SUCH A TREASONOUS AFFRONT TO FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY
Read Thomas Sowell's full column for yourselves.
I realized how far behind the times I am when I saw a TV commercial for some weight-loss product, showing Marie Osmond "before" and "after." I thought she looked great "before."
At first, I wondered if I had woken up in some sort of fucked-up Bizarro World, where Thomas Sowell is sane, Spock has a goatee, the Brigadier has an eyepatch and there are zeppelins in the sky, but then, I was reassured to see him say this:
The great sense of urgency of the Obama administration to get legislation to authorize slow-moving spending projects may seem inconsistent. But the urgency is real, even if the reasons given are not. The worse case scenario for the administration would be to have the economy begin to recover on its own before this massive spending bill is passed, reducing their chances of creating the kind of politically directed economy they want.
Whew! Thomas Sowell, still batshit enough to believe that FDR's New Deal prolonged the Great Depression, or that we'll be anywhere close to clear of this recession anytime sooner than three years from now? I guess that means I'm still on Earth-Prime, then.
Still, I was able to make at least one more of his statements in that column accurate, with a simple substitution edit:
War A stimulus should of course be "a last resort"-- but last in terms of preference, not last in the sense of hoping against hope while dangers grow, and wishful thinking or illusory agreements substitute for serious military economic preparedness-- or, if necessary, military economic action. As Franklin D. Roosevelt said, "If you wait until you see the whites of their eyes, you will never know what hit you."
More military deployments? Sure, why not? The military's job is to "do or die," after all, so if they're going to die anyway, they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population. [/Scrooge]
But salary caps on executives? HOLY SHIT FUCKBALLS HOW DARE YOU SUGGEST SUCH A TREASONOUS AFFRONT TO FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY
Read Thomas Sowell's full column for yourselves.