It seems the more government gets involved in our lives the worse it gets. Thomas Sowell, clearly one of the better common sense writers out there, expresses it well in the following article:
Gill Rapoza
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The Brainy Bunch
by Thomas Sowell
September 29, 2009
http://townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2009/09/29/the_brainy_bunch?page=full
Many people, including some conservatives, have been very impressed with how brainy the president and his advisers are. But that is not quite as reassuring as it might seem.
It was, after all, Franklin D. Roosevelt’s brilliant “brains trust” advisers whose policies are now increasingly recognized as having prolonged the Great Depression of the 1930s, while claiming credit for ending it. The Great Depression ended only when the Second World War put an end to many New Deal policies.
FDR himself said that “Dr. New Deal” had been replaced by “Dr. Win-the-War.” But those today who are for big spending like to credit wartime big spending for bringing the Great Depression to an end. They never ask the question as to why previous depressions had always ended on their own, much faster than the one under FDR, and without government intervention or massive government spending.
by Thomas Sowell
September 29, 2009
http://townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2009/09/29/the_brainy_bunch?page=full
Many people, including some conservatives, have been very impressed with how brainy the president and his advisers are. But that is not quite as reassuring as it might seem.
It was, after all, Franklin D. Roosevelt’s brilliant “brains trust” advisers whose policies are now increasingly recognized as having prolonged the Great Depression of the 1930s, while claiming credit for ending it. The Great Depression ended only when the Second World War put an end to many New Deal policies.
FDR himself said that “Dr. New Deal” had been replaced by “Dr. Win-the-War.” But those today who are for big spending like to credit wartime big spending for bringing the Great Depression to an end. They never ask the question as to why previous depressions had always ended on their own, much faster than the one under FDR, and without government intervention or massive government spending.
Read full article here: http://townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2009/09/29/the_brainy_bunch?page=full
Gill Rapoza
Veritas Vos Liberabit
http://grapoza.blogspot.com/
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