Sunday, January 26, 2014

Ben Stein Throws Cold Water on Fox Panel Fearmongering Over National Debt (via http://crooksandliars.com)

Ben Stein Throws Cold Water on National Debt Fearmongering (via http://crooksandliars.com)
By Heather January 26, 2014 8:07 pm Fox's Ben Stein went off script this Saturday and dared to criticize the amount of money we spend on our military. I'm no fan of Fox regular and former Nixon speechwriter Ben Stein, but every once in a while, he goes…


4 comments:

mike norman said...

Hey, Ben, better late than never. When I was at Fox, going back 10 years, Stein was always crying about how the debt was going to bankrupt our kids and grandkids. I guess if the debt is for the military, that's okay.

Unknown said...

How do these people sleep at night?

Or better yet, what did they do with all the money their parents gave them for an education?

Calgacus said...

Mike: That was remarkable ignorance from the son of an economist, Herbert Stein - who at the Committee for Economic Development "persuade[d] the business community in the 1940's to rally behind the 'unnatural' idea of using Federal budget deficits to regulate the economy". So BS is probably remembering the stuff his dad taught him - and seeing the way the wind is blowing too.

See his obit, with photo caption "Herbert Stein, who backed the use of deficits"

Would that today's "progressives" thought as clearly.

Tom Hickey said...

Very nice find. Thanks for sharing. Definitely one for the file.