The Ubiquity of Ignorance Posing as Wisdom

See Harold Meyerson today in the WaPo:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/29/AR2009092903001.html

This is not even serious argument! Hell, I'm no economist, but I AM sympathetic to free-market thinking -- and even I knew the current economic disaster was inevitable!

I mean, what exactly did Meyerson and his Keynesians THINK was going to happen after Bill Clinton inflated the currency prior to 1996 to get re-elected, did it again in 2000 to (unsuccessfully) get Al Gore elected (under the cover of 'Y2K' pseudo-silliness), and GWB repeated the money growth through 8 years of national crises and re-election campaigns? Eventually, the house of cards topples, especially when Congressional 'leaders' (read here: Frank, Dodd, Pelosi/Reid) take steps to legislatively deny reality by mandating fiscal laxity they then fail to oversee!

Please note I didn't mention any (small-c) conservatives here (no, GWB is NOT a conservative!). And, yet, Meyerson, et al, universally blame conservative economists for the liberals' economic failures! The MSM today isn't the Fourth Estate anymore, it's the Fifth Dimension -- where a liberal Utopia heals all imagined wounds without ever coming in contact with reality!

The Diminution of America

Things that will not end well:

• Either Israel will attack the Iranian nuclear sites, or Iran will threaten and/or use nuclear weapons against Israel;
• Democrats WILL pass some sort of health-care 'reform' which will NOT benefit folks who already have health insurance (it won't save any money, either!);
• Import tariffs and protectionism will undermine the World Trade Organization, and cause higher consumer prices for Americans, while their own government is stealthily increasing their own taxes via carbon- and value-added levies.
• Federal spending mandates will virtually guarantee that local and state governments pare back taxes and services to a point that basic necessities go begging locally, or increase local/state taxes so that household budgets go unbalanced;
• The coming 'revolution' by citizens over local vs. central/federal government will determine whether or not the U.S.A. is a nation in decline. It's a toss-up, at this point.

A long life to all...

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327241.300-secrets-of-the-centenarians-life-begins-at-100.html?full=true
It's worth noting here, I think, that absent the U.S.'s inflated -- because of the care given pre-mature deliveries, et al -- infant mortality rate, our average life span is significantly diminished statistically.
Suffice it to say, however, that if you've reached your first birthday, you stand to live longer than anyone else on Earth if you're an American citizen. (At least until ObamaCare becomes law!)

Mozel tov!

A Random (though long-standing) thought...

...how about instead of nationalizing health care, we abolish health insurance? That way everyone, you know, just pays for the services he/she uses.

Yeah, silly -- I know. Too much like the rest of life. And no opportunity for graft.

Would I rather be in the middle?..

Apparently, I live on the edge of both wrath and lust:

http://www.wired.com/culture/education/magazine/17-09/st_sinmaps

Could not being in the middle of the latter explain the former?

Obama Sinking...

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/daily_presidential_tracking_poll

It's because he's black, you know. Count on it! (No way, I mean, could it be because he's exactly the inexperienced, left-wing, near-Socialist cipher that naysayers cautioned about for much of the last two years. Really, c'mon!)

It's a black thing, and it ain't racist!..

If President Obama were Ted Kennedy, of course, he wouldn't be president today. Kennedy was waaayyy too liberal for mainstream Americans, and President Obama is at least his equal, Left-ward-wise.

So, what are we to make of all the charges of racism regarding anti-Obamacare activism: http://www.breitbart.tv/la-rep-obamacare-opponents-want-to-destroy-first-president-who-looks-like-me/

Well, not much. If the charges of racism were true, Obama would never have been elected, just as Kennedy never was elected. In fact, a strong case can be made that Obama is president BECAUSE he is black, and that assuaged Liberal/moderate 'guilt' over past social injustice.

So, where does the divide fall between Obama/racist rhetoric and classical self-interest? Well, predictably, I know a number of otherwise Liberal blacks who don't wish to give up their health benefits to a federal adminstrator.  Are they 'racists' against Obama?

I suspect Rep. Watson will soon learn, to her regret, that personal benefit trumps racial identity. But, that shouldn't surprise a Congressman/woman one bit, since self-interest --and re-election -- is his/her sole concern.