Daniel Hannan chews out British PM Gordon Brown on economy
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British Parliament member Daniel Hannan excoriated the Prime Minister of England last week. His 3-minute speech pretty much sums up the fundamental problems with government spending. This speech has common sense that any layman can understand. Watch it here. Here are some highlights.
“You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt.”
Why don’t liberals acknowledge common sense like this? Hannan makes the point that when individuals are in debt, they reduce their spending. Its kindergarten math, but politicians are amazingly skilled at getting away with ignoring such simple logic.
I love that when it comes to the economy, inaction is completely unacceptable to a liberal, but when it comes to national security, inaction is 100% the right decision. This is the fundamental problem I have with liberals: this lack of concern with consistency. They just don’t care if they’re being disingenuous or ignoring facts and logic.
Liberals think that it is none of the government’s business if Middle-East dictators repeatedly break international laws for decades, increasing the likelihood of dangerous behavior by rogue governments as well as separate terrorist organizations. These same liberals think it is the government’s business, nay, its duty, to intervene in the financial concerns of individuals, infringing on the financial freedom of individual Americans and their businesses.
Our founding fathers worked their tails off to make sure that the American government could never get involved with private businesses. Liberal politicians, both Republican and Democrat, have exploited the ignorance of regular Americans to justify trespassing into areas of our freedom they have no business trespassing on. When there is a bubble in the stock market, it must deflate slowly or burst. Pretending you deserve the money you “lost” in the recent crash is misguided. The stock market never actually reached 14,000. That was a fake number. Politicians would have you believe that it is big business’s fault that you lost all those Dow Jones points. The reality is you never had them. They were a facade, and when you accept that, you will be able to move on from these commonly believed myths that big business ruins everything and government can solve it. The fact of the matter is America didn’t have as much money as it thought. So politicians want to solve that fact by spending more money. Its ridiculous.