Something odd seems to be in the air.
Last week, on Fox News' Hannity & Colmes program, former Clinton aid Dick Morris predicted that the Illinois Rookie will be using the current economic recession to boost Federal spending- and debt- to unheard of levels.
In the meantime, he'll enact the liberals' cherished social programs which have been too expensive to have passed Congressional muster in the past.
Even Peggy Noonan, the now-irrelevant, largely brain-dead former Reagan speechwriter, was crowing about the benefits of FDR-like spending programs to make Americans 'feel better,' in this weekend's edition of the Wall Street Journal.
Like some doped-up zombie, she celebrated WPA-style programs as sure to make Americans see, feel and touch something 'real,' as opposed to cyber-based economic progress, like, oh, say, the internet!
According to Noonan, an entire decade or two was wasted in increasing American productivity using electronics, networking and e-based commerce and communication.
In Peggy's new world, roadwork and other tangible social-spending goodies trump real, market-tested goods and services.
We're in for a bad time, as market-based notions of value, job-creation, and spending are tossed out, to be replaced by B-team civil servants ladling out cash by the tens of billions to their friends and other supplicants.
Why anyone believes a lawyer with no governmental experience worth a dime can 'create jobs' where private capital saw no opportunity is anybody's guess.
But you don't have to guess who will pay for the borrowed money being pumped into all these idiotic programs, do you?
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