by Dan Mitchell | Jul 10, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
I had some fun at Andrew Sullivan’s expense a couple of weeks ago, mocking him for asserting that spending cuts today would be repeating the mistakes of Herbert Hoover. That was a rather odd thing for him to write since Hoover boosted the burden of government spending...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 11, 2010 | Bailouts, Big Government, Blogs, Economics
Jonah Goldberg writes in National Review that President Obama is beginning to look like the next Herbert Hoover. This is rather ironic since the left wanted him to become the next Franklin Delano Roosevelt, ushering in a new era of politically-popular statism. …the...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 18, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs
Walter Williams explains how Roosevelt’s policies extended the Great Depression. SInce Obama apparently would like to be the new FDR, this does not bode well for America’s future. The good news, so to speak, is that Obama’s policies are not nearly as bad as what...
