love this bit of logic
To believe Big Government explains why this extremely long recession was not even longer, we need to find some connection between the size of government and the depth and duration of recessions. There is no such connection in U.S. history, or in recent cyclical experience of other countries. On the contrary, recessions have become longer as the U.S. government (and the Fed) became larger, more expensive, and more involved in the economy. Foreign countries in which government spending accounts for about half of the economy have also suffered the deepest recessions lately, while economic recovery is well established in countries where government spending is a smaller share of GDP than in the U.S. In short, bigger government appears to produce only bigger and longer recessions.let me dismiss one claim that i think simplifies the data with another claim that simplifies the data - all qualified with the word "appears to." Lemme try:
* The job market appears to be getting worse the longer Brett Favre keeps playing
* the decline in popularity of American Idol roughly parallels the increase in Windows operating systems
* the increase in carbon levels seems to show that global warming is caused by hip hop.
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