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To: KLP who wrote (292078)2/12/2009 9:25:45 AM
From: Peter Dierks1 Recommendation   of 793927
 
Trekonomics
by Jed Babbin

02/12/2009

President Obama says we have to act boldly to solve the financial crisis. On Tuesday, supposedly explaining the new and improved bank bailout plan, serial tax evader and Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner added that we have to try things that have never been tried before.

The Obama team wants to boldly take our economy where no economy has gone before. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the birth of “Trekonomics.” It’s like the old “Star Trek” series, just without the brainy, logical Vulcans.

And Obama’s Trekonomics begins with a violation of the Prime Directive for a free-market economy: that government policy shall not hinder industry’s planning for the long or short term. ...

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