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Tuesday, May 19. 2009

One giant slush fund


George Will:



The Obama administration’s agenda of maximizing dependency involves political favoritism cloaked in the raiment of “economic planning” and “social justice” that somehow produce results superior to what markets produce when freedom allows merit to manifest itself, and incompetence to fail.


The administration’s central activity — the political allocation of wealth and opportunity — is not merely susceptible to corruption, it is corruption.


Posted by Gwynnie in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 13:37 | Comments (4) | Trackbacks (0)

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Mr. Will nails the Mudboy right between the blades.
#1 Leag on 2009-05-19 13:57 (Reply)
The quote nails it.

"...when freedom allows merit to manifest itself, and incompetence to fail."

An administration headed by Obama (a bennficiary of Affirmative Action) can't conceive of the concept of Merit.

It is anathema to those who succeed in spite of it. Hence the 'conceptual ideal' of Merit is meaningless to our President.

This is the origin of - "too big to fail", as well as most of Obama's other misguided notions.

[My humble opinion is that this is the root of His myopic behaviour pattern.]
#2 garrett on 2009-05-19 16:00 (Reply)
I was thinkin' that HusseinO's central activity — corruption, is the nail.

He is a walking breathing terrorist attack.
#2.1 Leag on 2009-05-22 11:55 (Reply)
"The political allocation of wealth and opportunity" -- a much more succinct statement of the problem than the usual "income redistribution." The stuff is going to get allocated somehow. Would we prefer a system that relies on voluntary transactions among free citizens, or one mandated by a political class that has an army behind it?
#3 Texan99 on 2009-05-20 09:25 (Reply)

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