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Drunkblogging Obama’s Address on the Economy

February 24, 2009 - 5:56 pm - by Stephen Green
bryan Lovely
2009-02-26 00:42:28

I was listening on the radio but only heard about half. My big snort came when he said he’d eliminate subsidies to agriculture companies that don’t need it.

Sure, he can eliminate them all he wants, and the Midwest Congressmen will just keep putting them back in…

In short, pretty much everything he said was either wrong-headed, unrealistic, an outright lie (“I’m no fan of big government”; HA!), or politically impossible. About the only thing I heard sounded good was the college tuition tax credit, but I have a sneaking suspicion that it’s actually populist nonsense, just on the company it keeps.