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Monday, October 11, 2010

Jay Ambrose: Dems want to avoid certain words

Ambrose: Dems want to avoid certain words

Saturday, October 9, 2010 By Jay Ambrose

The news is bad economically for the country and bad politically for the Democrats, and there may be some words they will want to avoid, such as "food stamps." I would throw in "oil spill" and "light bulbs," though it will take me a few paragraphs to get there.

Meanwhile, here's a new, foreboding record for the United States - 41.8 million people receiving the aforementioned food stamps in a human catastrophe brought on by unemployment rising scarily again. With an eye to November's midterm elections, Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has responded by referring to Democrats as "the party of food stamps," as opposed to the Republicans, viewed by him as "the party of paychecks."

It's rhetoric packed with partisan purpose, to be sure, but also some analytical insightfulness. Properly devised safety nets are needed when the free market is not delivering everything it can, but a chief reason it is not performing well right now is a government scaring businesses into investment of the kind where you first find a mattress and then stick your money underneath it.

The perceived threats are multiple - what might happen when the Obamacare mayhem fully kicks in, if the dollar keeps collapsing, if debt keeps accumulating, if taxes go up, if no one stops the madness that assumes it's not free exchange that is finally the source of all wealth, but the cleverness of the leftists now in power…  http://www.carrollcountytimes.com/news/opinion/columnists/article_37bdbdfe-d326-11df-a559-001cc4c002e0.html

20101009 Ambrose Dems want to avoid certain words

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