Great Quote from George Will's latest article on the Democratic governor of Colorado.

" he is a Democrat but immune to the progressive delusion that citizens cannot function for even a few minutes without guidance."

Author! Author!

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Any of you "libertarian" poseurs complaining about Republican voter suppression via voter ID laws?

No wait, all of you twits love it when people can't vote. We're a "republic", blah blah blah. A concept you don't even understand. Freedom as always means freedom of the few to protect their class privilege.

Anyone who sleeps on such an author and article deserves an immediate mute button.
POOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOf and fielder is gone.

Tah tah mindless sleeping cretan.

Obama's Jobs Program: If the Choice is Between "Go Big or Go Home," Start Packing Now.

Excellent article at Reason.com

Oh if only Obama's administration would read it and take it's clear, simple realism to heart.

The starting point of any serious discussion about jobs, jobs, jobs should be the brutal fact that government, regardless of who is running it, cannot create positions apart from public-sector jobs. And those in most cases are zombie jobs that can only survive on infusions of fresh cash taken elsewhere from the economy via taxes. That's why state and local payrolls are being cut as federal stimulus dollars dry up.

Which isn't to say that government can't help foster an environment that makes it easier for self-sustaining jobs to be created. Indeed, that's the one thing government can and should do: Create a reliable and stable fiscal and regulatory framework that businessess can rely on. What might go into creating such an atmosphere? Precisely the sort of things that Obama and congressional leaders, Democrats and Republicans, have ignored over the past several years in the rush to embrace all manner of bailout economics. What's needed is a sense of stability to the general fiscal landscape that might help to contain the "known unknowns," such as federal spending levels, debt creation, market interventions, and tax rates.

http://reason.com/archives/2011/09/01/obamas-jobs-program-if-the-cho

Horrendous news on the employment front.

For the first time in nearly a year the economy failed to create new jobs on a net basis according to the Labor Department's monthly nonfarm payrolls survey on Friday.

No doubt Labor Day will be filled with more empty rhetoric that doesn't produce jobs.

With the jobless rate stuck above 9.0 percent and confidence collapsing, President Barack Obama faces pressure to come up with ways to spur job creation. The health of the labor market could determine whether he wins re-election next year.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/02/us-usa-economy-idUSTRE77U25D20110902

TC - I would posit that the Government should be involved in certain sectors, and it is clear (from over the water) that Govt involvement in the mortgage market is not a good idea.

I'd defend the state ownership of the basic postal service. Without that, the idea that sending a letter within the country costs the same no matter where you live would go, and those people living outside of the maor metropolitan centres would have to pay more for a poorer service (because a private provider would focus on the higher volumes)