CIVICS NEWS.com
January 12, 2009
Bush recently stated,
I readily concede I chucked aside my free-market principles when I was told … the situation we were facing could be worse than the Great Depression.
Isn't something that is so quickly chucked aside, by definition, less than a principle? A principle, by definition, drives your behavior; it can't be chucked aside.
What he meant to say was that he never had true free-market principles. This is the president that has brought us the biggest debt in history BY FAR, and this didn't begin with the bailouts in 2008; his entire presidency has been a lesson on how to do big government. (See previous post, "Worst President in American History.")
A person who has free market principles would understand that government "solutions" only make matters worse. This is what Peter Schiff, Ron Paul, all of the economists at the Mises Institute, and any truly principled free market advocate would argue and has been arguing.
Are there actually conservatives around that still believe Bush is a conservative? He is FAR more liberal than Bill Clinton. Yet fiscal conservatives still claim Bush as their own. It boggles the mind.
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