Posted on 02/09/2008 4:40:35 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
Admission: over the course of my NewsBusting, I've actually developed a certain admiration for Bob Herbert. Not that I agree with virtually anything the NY Times columnist has to say, but that I appreciate his directness and the absence of the superfluous sarcasm that marks a number of his colleagues' work.
That said, I offer up Herbert's column of this morning, "Where Are the Big Ideas?", as the epitome of wrong-headed liberal thinking. Herbert's complaint is that when it comes to the role of government, the presidential candidates aren't thinking big enough. Hillary and Obama's proposals to subject 1/7th of the nation's economy [or whatever the current proportion that health care represents] to government control insufficient for Bob. He writes their plans off as "masterpieces of minutiae."
Herbert says that "the essential question the candidates should be trying to answer — but that is not even being asked very often — is how to create good jobs in the 21st century." The columnist gives us an idea of the kind of big-government thinking he has in mind to answer his question:
Classic illustration of big-government mindset ping to Today show list.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
I love the idea that Finkelstein wants the private sector to fuel jobs into the next century. The quote above by Herbert, however, is all wrong, of course, and should be:
Want people to work? Have the government stop all give-away and entitlement programs!
It's amazing how productive people can get when they have the choice of working or starvation. (I think I'm kidding...)
That Finkelstein is great. Then again, I might be somewhat biased, considering I’m . . . Finkelstein!
He went on to say that the conservatives base doesn’t like Huckabee either and the conservatives “continue to tear the party apart.”
[EVIL!!!! Conservatives are just evil!!!! LOL]
Dittoes to that! That Finkelstein IS great!
Keep up the good work!
LOL — many thanks, RTH!
Thanks for watching and reporting on propagandists who are amplifying bankrupt philosophies. Finkelstein, you’re GRRRRREAT!
Thanks, PG — as always, you’re too kind, but I’ll take the homage to Tony the Tiger ;-)
This Bob guy needs to be sent to a libertarian re-education camp, Clockwork Orange style.
I don't, I think you are right on!!! Hunger can be a great motivator.
Odd notion that the 5% or so of the population that “can’t” find a job are people we’d want fixing bridges.
Usually, when big government “creates jobs” for the pathetic 5% who can never seem to find a job, those “jobs” tend to be along the line of sweeping dirt roads.
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