tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29763791.post2945563596240748744..comments2023-10-31T05:07:19.353-04:00Comments on Delenda est Carthago: Considering themselves wise . . .Dr. Φhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14086783503820477029noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29763791.post-41206115819571482442011-09-25T17:33:57.597-04:002011-09-25T17:33:57.597-04:00Once we come to see our nation as an extended fami...<i>Once we come to see our nation as an extended family, then the sentiments of ordinary Americans become a lot more understandable, perhaps even to economists.</i><br /><br />I'd not heard this argument before. When I was a free-trader I used to use the "My fellow citizens of Fairfax" argument quite a lot. If someone had only come at me with that witty riposte I might have been convinced sooner :Psconzeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01908181786934308463noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29763791.post-19683793150763285532011-09-15T19:45:56.809-04:002011-09-15T19:45:56.809-04:00Samson: can you be more specific about what good ...Samson: can you be more specific about what good points you are referring to? Because while I may agree with Hanson that two wars and TSA were the wrong response to 9/11, the <i>right</i> response -- border security and Muslim repatriation -- wouldn't get his endorsement either. So he doesn't get any credit.<br /><br />And there <i>are</i> ordinary Americans, namely the majority who find the 9/11 deaths especially memorable.Dr. Φhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14086783503820477029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29763791.post-77694344843985957492011-09-14T16:05:30.115-04:002011-09-14T16:05:30.115-04:00I think you unfairly dismiss some of Hanson's ...I think you unfairly dismiss some of Hanson's very good points here. Moreover:<br /><br /><i>Once we come to see our nation as an extended family, then the sentiments of ordinary Americans become a lot more understandable</i><br /><br />The problem is that your nation is not an extended family, and there is no "ordinary American". Not anymore.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29763791.post-30133593775621547822011-09-13T13:15:33.006-04:002011-09-13T13:15:33.006-04:00...perhaps even to economists.
Don't count on...<i>...perhaps even to economists.</i><br /><br />Don't count on it. They still think Keynes was the bomb.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com