The Denver Post ran a front page article proclaiming “Ways to buoy the economy run thin.”
The article is not labeled “commentary,” “analysis,” or some similar designation. It should be. The basic premise of the author, Tom Raum, is that the government has done almost everything it can to “fix” the economy, but that partisan politics is blocking further government action.
It is a typical problem of the statists: when government intervention fails, they insist it is because they didn’t intervene ENOUGH. If one buys the premise, it is a win-win situation for the government. The more the government fails, the more power it needs. It is a black hole of failure.
Government interventionists, like Raum, think that continuously picking at the scab will help it heal. People that understand economics realize it is best to leave the damn thing alone and it will heal itself.
