It’s Eastyto Play Poker When You Don’t Use Your Money
You ever play one of those computer poker games, where you were staked to a few thousand dollars and got to hit “reset” every time you busted out? I bet you played your hands a lot differently than you would have if that money were yours.
On that subject, here’s Mark Steyn today:
America has a choice: It can reacquaint itself with socioeconomic reality, or it can buckle its mandatory seatbelt for the same decline most of the rest of the West embraced a couple of generations back. In 1897, troops from the greatest empire the world had ever seen marched down London’s mall for Queen Victoria’s diamond jubilee. Seventy years later, Britain had government health care, a government-owned car industry, massive government housing, and it was a shriveled high-unemployment socialist basket-case living off the dwindling cultural capital of its glorious past. In 1945, America emerged from the Second World War as the preeminent power on earth. Seventy years later . . .
Let’s not go there.
I’d say that the Democratic Vote-Buying Act of 2009 was a step in that direction, but it wasn’t. It was a huge flying leap, launched by people whose economic knowledge you could put into a shoebox with plenty of room left over for the broken shards of their campaign promises.
Democrats have a serious gambling problem and we seem entirely unwilling to stop them. Despite their incredible losing streak throughout 2008 (to the tune of over a trillion dollars), we let them push the entire economy of the country to the middle of the table.
How do you really think that’s going to turn out?
Other Posts of Interest:
- Thanks, Private Sector Suckers!
- “It is never a bad time for Republicans to speak economic truth…”
- No More Money for Highways.
Category: Our New Democratic Overlords, The Economy and Your Money
