http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2009/01/12/kevin-drum-why-cant-we-have-it-all/ Life. Liberty. Property. Defending individual freedom and liberty, one post at a time. Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:29:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2009/01/12/kevin-drum-why-cant-we-have-it-all/#comment-62715 Who’s going to pay for this stuff, anyway? « Blunt Object Wed, 14 Jan 2009 06:05:45 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/?p=3519#comment-62715 [...] Why can’t we have it all? (The Liberty Papers) So: what’s wrong with government spending to stimulate the economy now, combined with tax cuts and bank recapitalizations to help get the economy in shape for recovery a couple of years down the road? This isn’t so much a suggestion as a question. Does this make sense, or is there some fundamental misconception at its core? [...] [...] Why can’t we have it all? (The Liberty Papers) So: what’s wrong with government spending to stimulate the economy now, combined with tax cuts and bank recapitalizations to help get the economy in shape for recovery a couple of years down the road? This isn’t so much a suggestion as a question. Does this make sense, or is there some fundamental misconception at its core? [...]

]]> http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2009/01/12/kevin-drum-why-cant-we-have-it-all/#comment-62699 Blaine Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:24:13 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/?p=3519#comment-62699 In one of those three musketeer movies - a young apprentice (squire) was so proud of a new move he invented. As he showed it to one of the master swordsmen he is easily disarmed and then chased around the room by the master smacking him with the flat of his sword. The line in the movie always stays with me "It always amazes me how many different ways you can find to disarm yourself!" I am as guilty of being blinded by my own brilliance as the next person but any time you use the phrase "or is there some fundamental misconception at its core? " the answer is yes. In one of those three musketeer movies – a young apprentice (squire) was so proud of a new move he invented. As he showed it to one of the master swordsmen he is easily disarmed and then chased around the room by the master smacking him with the flat of his sword. The line in the movie always stays with me “It always amazes me how many different ways you can find to disarm yourself!” I am as guilty of being blinded by my own brilliance as the next person but any time you use the phrase “or is there some fundamental misconception at its core? ” the answer is yes.

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