I was thinking about something a wrote a few posts ago, about how Obama was making mistakes I would make. And though I haven't been paying much attention, it does seem like the spirit of that post, that he was going to be ineffectual, was wrong. It does seem like he is passing his agenda. I think his incorrectly associated all his 'splaining with a lack of willpower. I mean, Bill spent a lot of time trying to convince people of the merits of his program, and if he couldn't, then he changed his program. I assumed Obama would do the same. Unfortunately, he seems to largly stick to his guns. I like it, I just don't like his guns.
Here is something from the new WFB anthology:
"What then is the indicated course of action? It is to maintain and wherever possible enhance the freedom of the individual to acquire property and dispose of that property in ways that he decides on. To deal with unemployment by eliminating monopoly unionism, featherbedding, and inflexibilities in the labor market, and be prepared, where residual unemployment persists, to cope with it locally, placing the political and humanitarian responsibility on the lowest feasible political unit. . . . And then let us see whether we are better off than we would be living by decisions made between nine and five in Washington office rooms, where the oligarchs of the Affluent Society sit, allocating complaints and solutions to communities represented by pins on the map.
Amen Brother.
