Hey… That rascal, Alan Greenspan, is back in the newspapers. And this time he has something sensible to say:
“The emerging fight over the future of the welfare state, a paradigm without serious political challenge in eight decades, is accentuating the center’s declining. The welfare state has run up against a brick wall of economic reality and fiscal book-keeping. Congress, having enacted increases in entitlements without visible means of funding them, is on the brink of a stalemate…”
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Has Capitalism Failed Us?
“Americans think we are stupid,” said a European diplomat at a dinner party in Washington. ”But we’re not stupid. We’re just working out the problems involved in forming what you might call ‘a more perfect union.’”
“Well, you can unify all you want…it won’t make your debts go away,” we replied. We always try to be a cheery presence at dinner parties…especially in Washington.
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