Economics and Stimulus Round-Up ...

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The Club For Growth - Obama Should Listen to Obama: "Candidate Barack Obama talked some economic common sense when he debated Hillary Clinton last year. She called for legislation to rip up mortgage contracts and an interest rate freeze on adjustable mortgages. He replied ..."

Dr. Boudreaux is chairman of the economics department at George Mason University and a former president of FEE.
Thoughts on Freedom ~ So You Want Government-Supplied Health Care? - Ideas On Liberty: "As I waited with increasing irritation in that line, I wondered why so many people want government to supply health care. Do these advocates of government-supplied health care never fly internationally during the summer? When these people wait in long lines just to clear passport control and, in the process, notice the many empty desks that could be (but aren’t) occupied by additional agents, do these people not think that similar poor service might, perhaps, also characterize government-run health care? Do these champions of state-run health care never visit the post office?" (ht: Cafe Hayek)

More efficient financing?
Cafe Hayek: Private vs. public: "No one else will take on this risk? GM has put $2 billion into the Chevy Volt. Toyota is working on a battery powered car. The Tesla is out there. There are all kinds of other efforts going on, all financed privately and all actually doing something."

1984, Newspeak
Cafe Hayek: I guess it depends on what you mean by "responsibility": "Obama, in announcing his budget with a projected deficit of $1.75 trillion, champions responsibility ..."

Indeed.
Obama's Gall, David Henderson - Library of Economics and Liberty: "Does this guy think that words are just words? In this era in which he wants us all to be accountable, is he accountable for his language, let alone his actions? How can he talk about fiscal responsibility when he has just signed a bill proposing a huge increase in the deficit and now is pushing another bill to increase the deficit even more? And how long will it be before the main stream media start talking about the fact that he is proposing the biggest expansion of the federal government since FDR?"