tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7864912.post5153531118091229457..comments2024-01-18T00:29:01.851-08:00Comments on Things I Think About: Selling Grandchildren into Slavery.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7864912.post-223806080359591782009-01-16T16:46:00.000-08:002009-01-16T16:46:00.000-08:00"My recommendation: Forego the stimulus package, a..."My recommendation: Forego the stimulus package, and tough out this recession and come out of in a couple of years with no stimulus package debt, with pent up demand and cheap labor."<BR/><BR/>The problem: Enough voters have made government into an idol that can supposedly fix all problems in the universe that there's no way politicians won't do every possible foolish thing to try to prove them right, even if it results in utter ruination for everyone. The upside: at the other end of this, assuming we come out of it as a free people, the idea of government playing the role of such an idol will be widely ridiculed.<BR/><BR/>Too bad, though, that the majority can only learn from personal experience rather than from reason or history. In consequence, we face a lengthier and much more serious cataclysm.Matteohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05393908406875742989noreply@blogger.com