Brooks of the
Abstract: David Brooks blunders into reality.
As the summer heat wanes the body and the inane scribblings of the New York Times snarl the brain cells of those who seek competence, reason and a future in politics, a convenient and soothing diversion is usually indicated after a time. It is truth time! [Really!!] A reading of the ordinary propagandistic screeds from the far left-oriented writers at the near-bankrupt New York Times—aka the Walter Duranty Papers[1][2]--wearies the senses and enables the radiating frontal pain usually experienced from challenging a neuronal set that is customarily geared toward instruction and chain gang motifs rather than analysis. To our amazement, our Chief Babbler David Brooks[3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10] examines our contemporary government and reports that it too big and unwieldy. Stunned by this event, this piece must be read carefully to be believed.
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Brooks begins with a problem:
“Sometimes a local issue perfectly illuminates a larger national problem. Such is the case with the opposition of the New Jersey governor, Chris Christie, to construction of a new tunnel between his state and New York.”[11]--The Paralysis of the State By David Brooks Op-Ed Columnist Published:
There are many reasons why such a project is too expensive, unnecessary or foolish. Political pressures frequently lie at the heart of such programs. This is obviously a boon to the unions. The Big Dig in
“Christie argues that a state that is currently facing multibillion-dollar annual deficits cannot afford a huge new spending project that is already looking to be $5 billion overbudget. His critics argue that this tunnel is exactly the sort of infrastructure project that
Things like this, festooned with ‘benefits’ that will yield wonderful benefits in the far future, are mere gifts to the unions. There was no good reason to dig a hole instead of running a loop around
David Brooks gives us, surprisingly, a direct and factual look into government and the way they work.
“Both sides are right. But what nobody seems to be asking is: Why are important projects now unaffordable? Decades ago, when the federal and state governments were much smaller, they had the means to undertake gigantic new projects, like the
The size of government here is correctly stated, in my view, as the chief cause of any spending program because such expensive items ride on the very top of a massive spending engine that spurts out billions of dollars per day in entitlements. The efficiency[13] of government runs by the inverse ratio of G/
“The answer is what Jonathan Rauch of the National Journal once called demosclerosis. Over the past few decades, governments have become entwined in a series of arrangements that drain money from productive uses and direct it toward unproductive ones.” --The Paralysis of the State By David Brooks
This is a clincher and a bit odd here as our Babbling Brooks usually keeps his nose in the groove like a 45 rpm record hammering out propagandistic text to fit a political song that is the very essence of the New York Times. Sometimes, David strays from the liberal fold and steps on the core constituency of the far left.
“The end result is sclerotic government. Many of us would be happy to live with a bigger version of 1950s government: one that ran surpluses and was dexterous enough to tackle long-term problems as they arose. But we don’t have that government. We have an immobile government that is desperately overcommitted in all the wrong ways.” --The Paralysis of the State By David Brooks
Brooks ought to look for another job after this heresy.
“The antigovernment-types perpetually cry less, less, less. The loudest liberals cry more, more, more. Someday there will be a political movement that is willing to make choices, that is willing to say “this but not that.”
Someday.” --The Paralysis of the State By David Brooks
I am not sure what this slant is directed to. The Brooks analysis seems perfectly clear and fits history and the current government. Give him 100 points for this one
rycK
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[2] In honor of that celebrated Communist stooge and liar and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for the
“He said that these people had to be "liquidated or melted in the hot fire of exile and labor into the proletarian mass". Duranty claimed that the Siberian labor camps were a means of giving individuals a chance to rejoin Soviet society but also said that for those who could not accept the system, "the final fate of such enemies is death." Duranty, though describing the system as cruel, says he has "no brief for or against it, nor any purpose save to try to tell the truth". He ends the article with the claim that the brutal collectivization campaign which led to the famine was motivated by the "hope or promise of a subsequent raising up" of Asian-minded masses in the
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[12] “The Big Dig was the most expensive highway project in the
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