Wednesday, July 26, 2006

Well, credit the chutzpah anyway

Hillary Clinton is promising to deliver not only a chicken in every pot, but the entire American Dream! (whatever that is)
"A lot of Americans can't work any harder, borrow any more or save any less," she said in unveiling the group's "American Dream Initiative," a package of proposals to make college and home ownership more affordable, help small businesses, improve retirement savings and expand health insurance coverage.
Wow, that's impressive. Hillary has discovered how to pay for your college education, business expenses, buy you a house, and pay for your retirement and health insurance! Now if she could supply me a business manager for that small business she is funding, I could sit on the porch she bought me and sip iced tea all day long. Even more incredibly, she proposes to do all this and simultaneously reduce spending!
It also includes a commission to evaluate corporate subsidies and new rules to rein in federal spending.
Man I don't know what economy classes Hillary attended, but they didn't teach the same things I learned in college econ! Mostly, though, I am reminded of this CS Lewis quote:
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

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