By: George Will 2/27/2014
The many jaundiced assessments of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act on the fifth anniversary of its enactment were understandable, given that the sluggish recovery, now drowsing through the second half of its fifth year, is historically anemic. Still, bleak judgments about the stimulus spending miss the main point of it, which was to funnel a substantial share of its money to unionized, dues-paying, Democratic-voting government employees. Hence the stimulus succeeded. So there.
The many jaundiced assessments of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act on the fifth anniversary of its enactment were understandable, given that the sluggish recovery, now drowsing through the second half of its fifth year, is historically anemic. Still, bleak judgments about the stimulus spending miss the main point of it, which was to funnel a substantial share of its money to unionized, dues-paying, Democratic-voting government employees. Hence the stimulus succeeded. So there.
This
illustrates why it is so sublime to be a liberal nowadays. Viewed through the
proper prism, most liberal policies succeed because they can hardly fail. Each
achieves one or both of two objectives — making liberals feel good about
themselves and being good to liberal candidates.
Consider
Barack Obama’s renewed anxiety about global warming, increasingly called “climate change” during the approximately 15 years
warming has become annoyingly difficult to detect. Secretary of
State John Kerry,
our knight of the mournful countenance, was especially apocalyptic recently
when warning that climate change is a “weapon of mass destruction.” Like Iraq’s?
Blogger Steven
Hayward noted that
Kerry, he of the multiple mansions and luxury yacht, issued this warning in Indonesia,
where the average annual income ($3,420) suggests little latitude for people to reduce
their carbon footprints. Never mind. Obama says “the debate is settled. Climate change
is a fact.”…… To Read More…..
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