Big Government Returns with a Vengeance
Mar 24, 2020 4:54:00 GMT -5
Post by avordvet on Mar 24, 2020 4:54:00 GMT -5
Big Government Returns with a Vengeance
The coronavirus pandemic has led to the return of big government fetishism.
By: Andrew Moran, March 22, 2020
Statism has made its return, and it is uglier than ever before. A cash-strapped Washington is writing checks to millions of Americans, the Federal Reserve is printing trillions of dollars to pump into the system, and leftist politicians are demanding the installation of a filing cabinet full of progressive goodies. President Donald Trump, not exactly a staunch libertarian, has flirted with quasi-state ownership of corporations. How did the U.S. go from making fun of Joe Biden’s gaffes and getting prepared for the 2020 baseball season to sinking deeper into debt and fighting a virus? Well, thanks to the unsanitary conditions of a wet market in China, Americans are now facing the possibility of a deeper Swamp – in perpetuity. Big government is back with a vengeance.
Big Government Fetishism
A standard, non-ironic theme you will find in political commentary from newspapers, on cable news, and across social media is that libertarian dominance over public policy is diminishing and that the era of small government is coming to an end. The ideologues have taken over the asylum during the Wuhan Coronavirus pandemic, shrieking nonsensical polemics about the iniquities of fiscal conservativism and peddling statist panaceas that will ostensibly be the eternal cures to our economic and health woes.
The left is exploiting the current crisis to promote universal health care and a guaranteed basic income, while the right is using COVID-19 to show how President Trump is the man in charge because he is throwing money at the problem. Both sides are heeding the advice of Rahm Emanuel, who famously emphasized several years ago the importance of never letting a crisis go to waste.
www.libertynation.com/big-government-returns-with-a-vengeance/?utm_source=whatfinger
The coronavirus pandemic has led to the return of big government fetishism.
By: Andrew Moran, March 22, 2020
Statism has made its return, and it is uglier than ever before. A cash-strapped Washington is writing checks to millions of Americans, the Federal Reserve is printing trillions of dollars to pump into the system, and leftist politicians are demanding the installation of a filing cabinet full of progressive goodies. President Donald Trump, not exactly a staunch libertarian, has flirted with quasi-state ownership of corporations. How did the U.S. go from making fun of Joe Biden’s gaffes and getting prepared for the 2020 baseball season to sinking deeper into debt and fighting a virus? Well, thanks to the unsanitary conditions of a wet market in China, Americans are now facing the possibility of a deeper Swamp – in perpetuity. Big government is back with a vengeance.
Big Government Fetishism
A standard, non-ironic theme you will find in political commentary from newspapers, on cable news, and across social media is that libertarian dominance over public policy is diminishing and that the era of small government is coming to an end. The ideologues have taken over the asylum during the Wuhan Coronavirus pandemic, shrieking nonsensical polemics about the iniquities of fiscal conservativism and peddling statist panaceas that will ostensibly be the eternal cures to our economic and health woes.
The left is exploiting the current crisis to promote universal health care and a guaranteed basic income, while the right is using COVID-19 to show how President Trump is the man in charge because he is throwing money at the problem. Both sides are heeding the advice of Rahm Emanuel, who famously emphasized several years ago the importance of never letting a crisis go to waste.
www.libertynation.com/big-government-returns-with-a-vengeance/?utm_source=whatfinger