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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: LindyBill who wrote (293833)2/25/2009 4:33:41 PM
From: JustLearning2 Recommendations  Read Replies (3) of 793965
 
In my opinion:

It is hard for me to understand David Brooks.

Through a conscious thought process, he reached the conviction that he is “not a liberal”. I take this view to mean that he believes that separating the government from the economy is good, and government interference in the economy is bad.

Yet, he thinks that Obama’s people - who are proposing (and will get away with) a massive expansion of the government and interference in the economy - are “smart and sober”. I am assuming “smart and sober” refers to the realm of government policy. How can anyone hold such contradictory thoughts, which in essence amounts to saying “So-and-So is really smart, although I am convinced his ideas will not work in reality”?

Brooks gives himself away when he expresses his views as a negative statement “he is not a liberal” - he has no firm convictions on this topic, and can be shaped to any form - whatever works. That’s why he also mentions that he admires Obama who "is a liberal" and will use his "whatever works" as justification for this massive interference in the economy. Such an approach is not appropriate for any productive task; leave alone to a 21st century economy with its large, complex, interlocking dependencies of products, contracts, and people.
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