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Samizdata quote of the day “What did you do during the recession, Daddy? I installed solar panels and wind turbines. If only Franklin Roosevelt had thought to put millions of Americans to work during the Depression doing make-work jobs that were gee-whiz futuristic…. Oh, that’s right. He did. And it didn’t work then, either. But this time is different, you know.”
– Nick Gillespie, at Reason’s Hit & Run blog.
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What did you do during the recession, Daddy?
I bought shares in the Goricles fatuous schemes son.
It was the only growth market being allowed in town.
Then I sold out at the top of the market just before the bubble burst, just like I did with the IT debacle.
More Caviar and champers lad?
Only to note that, while Roosevelt’s hapless make-work efforts did little to ease the Depression, they did at least leave us some tangible benefits, including many public works, roads, bridges, national parks and so forth.
Yes, I know that this was a very sub-optimal way to provide these benefits, but at least they were benefits. The Going-To-The-Sun Road is no less beautiful because it was built or maintained by WPA workers.
The quasi-religious ‘green collar’ make-work nonsense in this latest go-round is much, much worse – not only does it rob untold billions from unwilling taxpayers, but they won’t even get anything useful or attractive out of it – merely a mass of non-functioning, uneconomic talismans dotted around the countryside, eyesore shrines to a world gone temporarily mad, which will cost untold billions more to remove when the madness has passed. It takes a peculiarly-malicious mind to waste the taxpayers’ money and the domestic product of a nation on stuff which not only does them no good but will blight the beauty of the fruited plain for decades to come.
I note that it is snowing like the dickens in DC today. Some enterprising soul should go and trip some breakers in the coal-fired power plants that supply the city, and give the Congress a taste of what life would be like when you depend on ‘renewable’ sources of energy. Stack that firewood high, folks!
llater,
llamas
llater,
llamas
RAB
I think you missed the top of the market already.
llamas
The snow in DC is due to the Gore effect which is targetting Hansen’s Crusade.
As for me, I’m going to get a job inspecting lightbulbs.
Going-to-the-Sun was built from 1921 to 1932. Roosevelt had nothing to do with it.
Just came across this while googling around.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7529
I have no idea who these folk are, but if true is genuinely very scary.
When I googled Svalbard volcanoes I got this quote from a Space daily article.
So, good place to put a seedbank then, and presumably Bill Gate’s frozen head.
Thanks Kevin B
Tinfoil hat site then. Phew!
It’s hard to know these days.
Sadly it is “different this time”.
F.D.R. did not throw hundred of billions (perhaps trillions) of Dollars down the rathole of the banks.
Nor were his make work building projects (which, please remember Bastiat, meant that more economic projects were NOT done) on top of vast existing entitlement programs (expanding all the time).
Total government spending (even as a proportion of output) was tiny in the 1930’s – compared to what Comrade Obama and the Democrats in House and Senate are pushing into effect.
“A trillion here and and trillion there – soon one is talking real money”.
It is bankruptcy – national bankruptcy.
Yet the majority of people just think.
“Obama = cool”.
If only the “United States of Celebrity” (to use Bernie Goldberg term) and the United States of America were two different places.
Then the “Great Slobbering Love Affair” that the media have with Comrade Obama would not matter.
Comatus wrote:
‘Going-to-the-Sun was built from 1921 to 1932. Roosevelt had nothing to do with it.’
Well, then I stand corrected and thank you for it. The memory is the first thing to go. But you take my point. So let’s say that, under the WPA, we all at least got to benefit from the Mathematical Tables program, whereas under the greenscam programs now being ramrodded through the Congress, we will all be saddled with a legacy of non-effective and short-lived white elephants which our grandchildren will be paying for a second time – to clean them all up. If I’m going to be robbed at gunpoint for monies to be spent in redistributing wealth and buying votes, surely it’s not too much to ask that I at least get something marginally-useful or even more-or-less neutral for my money.
llater,
llamas
The article on the seed bank is mostly ad hominem comment and a lot of conjecture.
This is tin foil book material and not really worth the time I took to read it!