PHRASECENSOREDPOSTERSHOULDKNOWBETTER., PHRASECENSOREDPOSTERSHOULDKNOWBETTER., I look at the whole thing as a bell curve, with those two as polar opposites. The curve represents the most productive economic condition in the middle, and inversely repesents government control out to the extreme case at either end. The more the government gets involved, one way or the other from center, the less effective our economy is at supporting production and growth, and the more our wealth, or in this case income, is redistributed to either special interests, or to just buy votes it seems.
With all the government funding going into relief and security on the one side, and simultaneously going into bailing out the financial system, I guess we are getting rotisseried from the ends. Hundreds of billions of dollars of net worth are getting stripped off on both sides, and like Martin says, there's no end in sight.
I wonder how long we'll be able to sustain this.
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The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.
-- Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)