Deficit Spending
Posted at 11:24pm on Jan. 15, 2008 . . . Forever Will It Dominate Your Destiny
By Pejman Yousefzadeh
Remember the scene in The Empire Strikes Back when Luke Skywalker ventured into the Dark Side Cave on Dagobah, encountered Vader, decapitated him in a lightsaber fight and then found his own visage contained in the helmet? It was a lesson designed to teach the young Jedi apprentice that he too could be seduced by the dark side of the Force and become the very thing he hated.
Coincidentally, let us recall that Hillary Clinton recently compared Vice President Cheney to Vader.
Consider the above points. And now . . . ahem:
If our Washington, D.C., readers noticed a cortege of blue suits carrying a casket in front of the Brookings Institution last week, be not mournful. You were merely watching the leading economists of the Democratic Party burying the faith once known as Rubinomics. May it rest in peace.
Read on . . .
