This week's news challenges us to consider what is really going on in the 21st Century battle of ideas. As the new Obama regime takes shape, it is setting itself up to be perceived as pragmatic economic managers and sincere in its rejection of heavy handed, interventionist foreign policy.
But what will follow the enormous injection of more government prescribed remedies for our economic woes? Here's a sampling of opinion from some good thinkers around us and some ideas to ponder. When you've sifted through it, from your own perspective, please share your own comments and thoughts.
Obama's "New"
New Deal
By ckennedy
The
world was greeted on Saturday with Barack Obama’s announcement of a massive
public works program to “save or create at least 2-1/2 million jobs so that the
nearly 2 million Americans who’ve lost them know that they have a future,”
...
What's
so great about the Great Depression?
By
Beth(Beth)
Prior to the Great Depression, most Western economists
accepted the classical virtues of thrift, limited government, balanced
budgets, the gold standard and Say's Law. While most economists continued to
defend free enterprise and free ...
Wealth is not the Problem -
http://wealthisnottheproblem.blogspot.com/
Could An Obama Presidency Have a Silver Lining... NewsWithViews.com - Merlin,OR,USA Our current president, though a Republican, is a conservative in name only. Bush is essentially a Big Government man, a multiculturalist, a globalist who doesn’t care much about the U.S. Constitution or the historical American nation. Yet during the past eight years, Republicans have gone to the mat again and again to defend him....
Out of the
ashes
Princeton University The Daily
Princetonian - NJ, United States
Many Democrats will view that suggestion as heresy. But politics is
cyclical, and there is little doubt that the conservative movement will
be back. Much as George McGovern's landslide defeat in 1972 failed to
crush the Democratic Party permanently, 2008 will not spell doom for
the Republicans. Ensuring that the post-2008 Republican party is based
on strong intellectualism will pay dividends for everyone both now and
when the political pendulum swings the other way.
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