Cafe Hayek
by Don Boudreaux
Posted in
Commentary "With champions of fiscal prudence and market economies -- such as Ms. Eaglen’s employer, the American Enterprise Institute -- frantically insisting that modest belt-tightening by the colossus that is the Pentagon will bring calamity, 'Progressives' and others who endorse active government involvement in the economy can be forgiven for likewise issuing over-the-top, hysterical predictions about the calamities that await us from modest belt-tightening by the likes of the Department of Education and the F.D.A." (12/11/12)
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And “dangerous for military” isn’t synonymous with “dangerous for society”
by Don Boudreaux
Posted in Commentary
"With champions of fiscal prudence and market economies -- such as Ms. Eaglen’s employer, the American Enterprise Institute -- frantically insisting that modest belt-tightening by the colossus that is the Pentagon will bring calamity, 'Progressives' and others who endorse active government involvement in the economy can be forgiven for likewise issuing over-the-top, hysterical predictions about the calamities that await us from modest belt-tightening by the likes of the Department of Education and the F.D.A." (12/11/12)
http://tinyurl.com/bvp95eu