Got a number of emails re “Why There’s No Left Left (Part II).”
Eugene Koontz pointed out that 2 of the links in the post were broken. Here they are again: “Why There’s No Left Left [Part I]” and “Cash or Charge?”
Thanks Mr. Koontz!
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Thant Tessman writes:
“Minor note: The article about government debt linked to in the blog entry [“Tuition warfare“] says: ‘The government can spend more money than it takes in because it has the power to borrow money on the open market.’ This is not the whole story. The government would not be able to borrow the kind of money it does to finance the wars we’ve seen throughout U.S. history without the banks (through the mechanisms of the Federal Reserve and fractional-reserve banking) effectively printing money to buy that government debt. I’m sure this is something most of the contributors to Antiwar.com already know. I only mention it because this point never seems to get the attention it deserves.”
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B. Sirius writes:
“Let’s see, if we were citizens of a foreign country, Brazil for example, they would just forgive the national debt. When you have a population as collectively dumb as we are, folks just bend over and grab their ankles.”
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And Cam Hardy writes:
“I’m a regular reader of Antiwar.com, and generally your Mad Max-style libertarianism doesn’t get in the way of quality reporting and commentary. However, the blog entry ‘Why There’s No Left Left Part II’ was ridiculous. If there truly was ‘no Left left,’ the antiwar movement would be an irrelevant bunch of pseudo-intellects blogging about the need for roads to be privatized.”
Good eye for exaggeration, M. Hardy! “Why There’s Little Left Left” would have been more accurate. Also, Nixon did win in a landslide a few decades ago so maybe “Why There’s So Little Left” would have been better yet.