Little-Acorn
09-13-2011, 02:51 PM
For those who were waiting breathlessly for the NEW ideas that the President felt it necessary to call a complete Joint Session of Congress to announce....
....now you've heard them.
And if they seem familiar, that's because they are. Distressingly so.
His revolutionary "new" ideas are nothing but the same failed agenda he has been pushing for the last three years... and his ideological cohorts have been pushing for the last hundred. And always with the same result.
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http://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2011/09/13/back_to_the_future/page/full/
Back to the Future?
by Thomas Sowell
9/13/2011
Those who are impressed by words seem to think that President Barack Obama made a great speech to Congress last week. But, when you look beyond the rhetoric, what did he say that was fundamentally different from what he has been saying and doing all along?
Are we to continue doing the same kinds of things that have failed again and again, just because Obama delivers clever words with style and energy?
Once we get past the glowing rhetoric, what is the president proposing? More spending! Only the words have changed -- from "stimulus" to "jobs" and from "shovel-ready projects" to "jobs for construction workers."
If government spending were the answer, we would by now have a booming economy with plenty of jobs, after all the record trillions of dollars that have been poured down a bottomless pit. Are we to keep on doing the same things, just because those things have been repackaged in different words?
(Full text of the article can be found at the above URL... and should be. Another must-read from Thomas Sowell.)
....now you've heard them.
And if they seem familiar, that's because they are. Distressingly so.
His revolutionary "new" ideas are nothing but the same failed agenda he has been pushing for the last three years... and his ideological cohorts have been pushing for the last hundred. And always with the same result.
--------------------------------------
http://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2011/09/13/back_to_the_future/page/full/
Back to the Future?
by Thomas Sowell
9/13/2011
Those who are impressed by words seem to think that President Barack Obama made a great speech to Congress last week. But, when you look beyond the rhetoric, what did he say that was fundamentally different from what he has been saying and doing all along?
Are we to continue doing the same kinds of things that have failed again and again, just because Obama delivers clever words with style and energy?
Once we get past the glowing rhetoric, what is the president proposing? More spending! Only the words have changed -- from "stimulus" to "jobs" and from "shovel-ready projects" to "jobs for construction workers."
If government spending were the answer, we would by now have a booming economy with plenty of jobs, after all the record trillions of dollars that have been poured down a bottomless pit. Are we to keep on doing the same things, just because those things have been repackaged in different words?
(Full text of the article can be found at the above URL... and should be. Another must-read from Thomas Sowell.)