Geithner re-announces his public-private plan for toxic assets. Leaving aside the boring details, the plan amounts to what?
• corporate statism
• crony capitalism
• lemon socialism
• Groucho Marxism
The answer, of course, is … all of the above.
Bush leaves us, finally, with a riddle:
The battles waged by our troops are part of a broader struggle between two dramatically different systems. Under one, a small band of fanatics demands total obedience to an oppressive ideology, condemns women to subservience, and marks unbelievers for murder. The other system is based on the conviction that freedom is the universal gift of Almighty God and that liberty and justice light the path to peace.
Hmmm.
Okay, I give up.
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