WHO SAID: Spending doesn't work !

[gautama]

Link:

Guess Who? - Thomas Sowell - Townhall Conservative

 

[LiberalNut]

Thomas Sowell is an idiot. His PhD dissertation and his entire career as a partisan hack posing as an economist is based on a laughably false interpretation of Say's Law.

But I'm asking you to have a clue.

Nevermind.

 

[Lonestar_logic]

Thomas Sowell is an idiot. His PhD dissertation and his entire career as a partisan hack posing as an economist is based on a laughably false interpretation of Say's Law.

But I'm asking you to have a clue.

Nevermind.

Typical liberal idiot. Try reading the article and you may not look like a complete fool.

 

[beowolfe]

Still trying to re-write history, huh?

 

[edthecynic]

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[beowolfe]

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[PoliticalChic]

Link:

Guess Who? - Thomas Sowell - Townhall Conservative

Actually, we have to go back even further...to Harding

1. "America's greatest depression fighter was Warren Gamaliel Harding. An Ohio senator when he was elected president in 1920, he followed the much praised Woodrow Wilson— who had brought America into World War I, built up huge federal bureaucracies, imprisoned dissenters, and incurred $25 billion of debt.

Harding inherited Wilson's mess— in particular, a post–World War I depression that was almost as severe, from peak to trough, as the Great Contraction from 1929 to 1933 that FDR would later inherit. The estimated gross national product plunged 24 percent from $91.5 billion in 1920 to $69.6 billion in 1921. The number of unemployed people jumped from 2.1 million to 4.9 million.

One of Harding's campaign slogans was "less government in business," and it served him well. Harding embraced the advice of Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon and called for tax cuts in his first message to Congress on April 12, 1921. The highest taxes, on corporate revenues and "excess" profits, were to be cut. Personal income taxes were to be left as is, with a top rate of 8 percent of incomes above $4,000. Harding recognized the crucial importance of encouraging the investment that is essential for growth and jobs, something that FDR never did.

Powerful senators, however, favored giving bonuses to veterans, as 38 states had done. But such spending increases would have put upward pressure on taxes. On July 12, 1921, Harding went to the Senate and urged tax and spending cuts. He noted that a half-billion dollars in compensation and insurance claims were already being paid to 813,442 veterans, and 107,824 veterans were enrolled in government-sponsored vocational training programs.

President-Elect Obama ought to consider the model of Warren G. Harding, whose policies raised Americans’ standard of living, and lifted the nation itself out of a depression…

In 1922, the House passed a veterans' bonus bill 333-70, without saying how the bonuses would be funded. The senate passed it 35-17. Despite intense lobbying from the American Legion, Harding vetoed the bill on September 19— just six weeks before congressional elections, when presidents generally throw goodies at voters. Harding said it was unfair to add to the burdens of 110 million taxpayers.

Harding's Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover wanted government intervention in the economy— which as president he was to pursue when he faced the Great Depression a decade later— but Harding would have none of it. He insisted that relief measures were a local responsibility."
http://www.n-philes.com/forums/showpost.php?p=50819272&postcount=1


2. "Instead of bailing out failing businesses, expanding government, and redistributing taxpayer money with a "stimulus" plan, Harding responded by cutting spending and removing burdensome regulations and taxes. During his campaign, he argued, "We need vastly more freedom than we do regulation." In stark contrast with the Bush-Obama response of ever-more government spending and debt, Harding had federal spending cut in half between 1920 and 1922 and ultimately ran a surplus.

As a result, the recession that started in 1920 ended before 1923. Lower taxes and reduced regulation helped America's economy quickly adjust after the war as entrepreneurs and capital were freed to create jobs and push the economy to recover. Harding's free market policies lead to the Roaring Twenties, known for technological advances, women's rights, the explosion of the middle class, and some of the most rapid economic growth in American history. Still, he is ranked as one of the worst presidents by many in academia's ivory tower."
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/02/obama_should_channel_harding_n.htm


BTW, today is Harding's birthday...

 

[NYcarbineer]

Link:

Guess Who? - Thomas Sowell - Townhall Conservative

Ironically Sowell wants to claim that spending didn't work to end the Depression, but what does he say ended the Great Depresssion?

World War II.

a.k.a. the biggest government spending program in history, and, the biggest increase in government employees in history.

So, essentially he's full of shit, but since he's eloquently full of shit he fools large numbers of people into thinking he's not full of shit.

 

[eagleseven]

Link:

Guess Who? - Thomas Sowell - Townhall Conservative

Ironically Sowell wants to claim that spending didn't work to end the Depression, but what does he say ended the Great Depresssion?

World War II.

a.k.a. the biggest government spending program in history, and, the biggest increase in government employees in history.

So, essentially he's full of shit, but since he's eloquently full of shit he fools large numbers of people into thinking he's not full of shit.

I think you just hate intelligent black people.

 

[NYcarbineer]

Link:

Guess Who? - Thomas Sowell - Townhall Conservative

Ironically Sowell wants to claim that spending didn't work to end the Depression, but what does he say ended the Great Depresssion?

World War II.

a.k.a. the biggest government spending program in history, and, the biggest increase in government employees in history.

So, essentially he's full of shit, but since he's eloquently full of shit he fools large numbers of people into thinking he's not full of shit.

I think you just hate intelligent black people.

He's wrong. I've seen wrong, and full of shit, in every color.