“There’s one piece of advice my dad gave me when he dropped me off at college. He said, “You’ve got the talent. You can sing and play guitar. That doesn’t make you any better than anyone else.””
~John Denver
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Perhaps love is like a resting place, A shelter from the storm, It exists to give you comfort, It is there to keep you warm, And in those times of trouble, When you are most alone, The memory of love will bring you home”
~John Denver
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John Denver
John Denver (December 31, 1943 – October 12, 1997), born Henry John Deutschendorf, Jr., was an American Country Music/folk singer-songwriter and folk rock musician. He was one of the most popular acoustic artists of the 1970s in terms of record sales,[1] recording and releasing around 300 songs, about half composed by himself. He was named Poet Laureate of Colorado in 1977. Songs such as “Leaving on a Jet Plane” (1967), “Take Me Home, Country Roads” (1971), “Rocky Mountain High” (1972), “Sunshine on My Shoulders” (1973), “Thank God I’m a Country Boy” (1974), “Annie’s Song” (1974), and “Calypso” (1975) are popular worldwide. Denver has been referred to as “The Poet for the Planet”, “Mother Nature’s Son” (based on The Beatles song he covered) and “A Song’s Best Friend”.
Notwithstanding reports that all economists are now Keynesians and that we all support a big increase in the burden of
government, we the undersigned do not believe that more government spending is a way to improve economic performance.
More government spending by Hoover and Roosevelt did not pull the United States economy out of the Great Depression in
the 1930s. More government spending did not solve Japan’s “lost decade” in the 1990s. As such, it is a triumph of hope over
experience to believe that more government spending will help the U.S. today. To improve the economy, policymakers should
focus on reforms that remove impediments to work, saving, investment and production. Lower tax rates and a reduction in the burden of government are the best ways of using fiscal policy to boost growth.
“…According to Mr Biden: “Every economist… from conservative to liberal, acknowledges that direct government spending on a direct program now is the best way to infuse economic growth and create jobs.”
Barack Obama said earlier this month that: “There is no disagreement that we need action by our government, a recovery plan that will help to jumpstart the economy.”
But the economists who signed the advert, funded by the Cato Institute in Washington DC, say that: “we the undersigned do not believe that more government spending is a way to improve economic performance. More government spending by Hoover and Roosevelt did not pull the United States economy out of the Great Depression in the 1930s. More government spending did not solve Japan’s “lost decade” in the 1990s.”
They propose instead that: “To improve the economy, policymakers should focus on reforms that remove impediments to work, saving, investment and production. Lower tax rates and a reduction in the burden of government are the best ways of using fiscal policy to boost growth.”
Bigger Government Did Not Work for Bush, and It Will Not Work for Obama
by Daniel J. Mitchell, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute
“…During the Bush years, so-called stimulus legislation based on “Keynesian” theory was enacted in both 2001 and 2008.1
It was hoped that putting money in people’s pockets would lead to more consumer spending and thus give the economy a positive jolt. Those episodes of Keynesian policy were ineffective, but that has not dimmed enthusiasm for the approach. The Obama economic team is pushing a similar approach, but on a much bigger scale—more than $800 billion of new spending and temporary tax cuts, a figure that climbs above $1 trillion when interest costs are included. And that may be just the starting point since the promise of additional spending has set off a feeding frenzy on Capitol Hill.
“…Doing more of a bad thing is not a recipe for growth. Government spending generally is a burden on the economy. Whether financed by debt or taxes, government spending requires a transfer of money from the productive sector of the economy. Moreover, most forms of government spending result in the misallocation of labor and capital, causing even further damage.
Although many factors influence economic performance, the negative impact of government spending is one reason small-government jurisdictions such as Hong Kong have higher growth rates than nations that have medium-sized government, such as the United States. The same principle explains in part why the United States enjoys faster average growth than a big-government country such as France. Figure 1 shows average economic growth rates in France and Hong Kong since 1980. …”
“… President Obama’s new economic stimulus ploy is to declare that no dissent on the need for massive government action exists.
He is wrong.
Via Cato Institute: Here are 200 economists, including Nobel Laureates, who oppose the Generational Theft Act of 2009. The open letter is running as an ad in the NY Times, Washington Post and Roll Call this week.
And here, via Hans Bader at Open Market, are more skeptics.
Perhaps they’ll drag Joe Biden out of the closet to call the dissenters…unpatriotic. …”
The Impending Obama Meltdown [Victor Davis Hanson]
“…And the result of all this?
At home, Obama is becoming laughable and laying the groundwork for the greatest conservative populist reaction since the Reagan Revolution.
Abroad, some really creepy people are lining up to test Obama’s world view of “Bush did it/but I am the world”: The North Koreans are readying their missiles; the Iranians are calling us passive, bragging on nukes and satellites; Russia is declaring missile defense is over and the Euros in real need of iffy Russian gas; Pakistanis say no more drone attacks (and then our friends the Indians say “shut up” about Kashmir and the Euros order no more “buy American”).
This is quite serious. I can’t recall a similarly disastrous start in a half-century (far worse than Bill Clinton’s initial slips). Obama immediately must lower the hope-and-change rhetoric, ignore Reid/Pelosi, drop the therapy, and accept the tragic view that the world abroad is not misunderstood but quite dangerous. And he must listen on foreign policy to his National Security Advisor, Billary, and the Secretary of Defense. If he doesn’t quit the messianic style and perpetual campaign mode, and begin humbly governing, then he will devolve into Carterism—angry that the once-fawning press betrayed him while we the people, due to our American malaise, are to blame.”
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