Posted by Bob on 8/27/2007, 5:02 am, in reply to "--I dunno--Can God lose a lawsuit?" The Patriot Post is searchable on google, of course, and it is no secret from its name that it is a conservative oriented site, a digest of news and opinion. The quote you cited is, despite your sarcasm, nothing any worse than the "we are in danger of a theocracy" alarmism that I find on THIS site. (When I ask why it is that the mere mention of God in the schools is a threat to the republic, when daily prayer and Bible reading for decades did not bring about a theocracy, I never get any sensible answer.) "The growing pains of losing jobs" is a sad but unavoidable economic reality as economies must continually adapt to changing conditions. Economists call this "dislocation." The classic example is the "buggy whip" industry that collapsed as more people bought automobiles. People suffered. Government policy is wise to ameliorate the suffering, but very unwise to try to artificially prop up an inherently failing industry. Too often, government only makes the problem worse, by providing incentives for people not to adapt. All that said, my use of a quote from any particular site is not a blanket endorsement of everything on that site, just as my quotes from Susan Estrich do not make me anywhere nearly as liberal as she is. The quote stands on its own, and the point of it is that "feel good" economics may give the supposed benefactor warm fuzzies for awhile, but the long-term reality only improves when sound policies of productivity and market allocations are in effect. That has a very real benefit for ordinary people. As long as they live under tyrannies, and as long as we subsidize the tyrants, they suffer, and we remain malefactors, not benefactors.
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Nothing so sinister, When I put the URL in the post, it did not connect. And since it was so long and unwieldy, I left it off.
