Show Your Solidarity Against Keynes!
John Maynard Keynes may be dead, but his loony ideas sure aren’t. Richard Nixon once said, “we’re all Keynesians now.” Unfortunately, that sentiment still looms large over Washington lawmakers as they continue to work out the details on a massive government “stimulus.” In other words, a gigantic economic fallacy writ large. One that will undoubtably make the country poorer. Makes me wonder why word of Keynesianism’s defeat never reached the beltway. Well, here is my attempt to send that message down there. Americans for Prosperity created an online petition called No Stimulus! whereby they will attempt to send the message that moving around, printing, borrowing, and outright stealing money does not “stimulate” the economy. In fact, allow me to quote the petition directly:
“Congress should not enact an expensive spending bill under the pretense of stimulus or recovery. We cannot spend our way to prosperity, and such an expansion of the federal government will put a crushing burden on taxpayers in the long-term.”
Join me in signing this worthy petition. Otherwise I’m going to go down to Washington myself and treat each legislator like I’m Bill Lumbergh and they are Peter. “Yeeaaahhhh, did you get the memo?”
The thing is, the folks in Washington would think that it really makes sense for it to be such a big deal over the cover sheet change for the TPS reports.
22 Jan 2009 at 12:29 pm