Victor Davis Hanson at NRO says that while this may be the most unstable time in America we've ever seen, he finds it exciting, because the reign of the effete, east-coast academic / journalist / financial wonk / politician / foundation head who jets around to conferences and has a revolving-door career among the above institutions, all the while spouting leftist class-envy rhetoric, is coming to a close.
Oh sure, it's exciting allright. About as exciting as having a penisectomy. He's conjecturing, may be right, may be wrong. If the Bush era of preemptivity and doctrines to be spread at the barrel of a gun, finally ending in economic catastrophe, had been so wonderful, we never would have voted for change, as exciting as that was. I knew you were excited. You are getting what you wanted, a complete economic meltdown, yet you claim that your opposition planned it.
ReplyDeleteCount me out of the class envy class, will you. Envy is a deadly sin and I try to avoid it like the plague. It only hurts the envier. Sounds like pride might make one call others envious. Also deadly, but choose your poison.
ReplyDelete1.) Where is any - any - evidence that I have wanted an economic meltdown, ever?
ReplyDelete2.) Your question the other day about who profited from the market slide would seem to indicate class envy, as would frequent references to "da Man," but perhaps there are other explanations.
Nope, sorry. Assuming I get the medicare and social security benefits I paid for, I have all I need and more. And am quite grateful for that. You might as well call your pointy-headed intellectuals "da man." And, yes, who profitted? That is a question, not a statement of envy. You wish. Stay excited. Is there some exclusivity that you feel that makes you seem special to yourself?
ReplyDeleteIt appears I cannot make a statement here without accusations of lying.
ReplyDeleteI'm just a guy who's deeply concerned that freedom, dignity, decency and common sense are disappearing from the human experience.
ReplyDeleteWhat have you been accused of lying about?
ReplyDeleteI'm just trying to get a handle on what your core principles are.
And I'm just asking for proof of your assertions, such as that I revel in times of economic difficulty
ReplyDeleteYou accused me of disingenousness.
ReplyDeleteThesaurus Legend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun 1. disingenuousness - the quality of being disingenuous and lacking candor
dishonesty - the quality of being dishonest
Well, you did try to make an apples-and-apples scenario our of one which is really apples and oranges. You pointed to the 87 crash and noted it happened on Dutch's watch and left it at that, as if that were all anybody needed to know about the factors involved. And I'm pretty sure you know better.
ReplyDeleteTime constraints prohibit a lengthy comparison of the market crashes, corrections, whatever since that that occurred on Ronnie's watch, but I found this multi-fractal spectral analysis of the Crash of '87 which you might enjoy. My simple point is that you cannot necessarily damn the POTUS sitting in that office for stock market dips, crashes, bulls or bears, etc. But, as evidenced by the huge shot of confidence the Fed injected into the market today with their guarantee that interest rates will remain near 0 for the next two years, we're all, if not socialists, Keynesians now. I hear people call into talk shows and try to claim that Keynesianism has never worked. It is a necessity in today's global marketplace. I am still proud to be an American and will continue to exalt it as the greatest country with the greatest people in all the world. And I will fight to retain my social insurance benefits. I am puzzled why you seem to accept the possiblity of giving yours up. I also would like to spend some time outlining my personal principles but for now I will just have to wing it, me and my arrow (that still small voice that may not be whispering that much different to me than it is to you).
ReplyDeleteAnd, oh the link. Google it until you find something that suits your thinking. I am sure we can each find stuff that fits our respective zeitgeists.
ReplyDeletehttp://129.3.20.41/eps/fin/papers/0409/0409050.pdf
I will not ask your children or our grandchildren to pay my doctor bills or my gas bill or any other expense that as a grown adult I am obligated for.
ReplyDeleteThe money allotted to me for this "social insurance," as you call it, is all gone. All gone.