Friday, February 22, 2013

The Average American

Remember, that means 50% of This Great Nation Of Ours™ is even stupider.
In Horsey's column he mentions current Coolidge fetishism, but doesn't identify what we assume to be its chief cause, revisionist typist Amity Shlaes & her new book celebrating the great economist w/ the stick up his New England Yankee ass.

Ms. Shlaes previously achieved notoriety by revising the history of the Great Depression to align w/ the bullshit economic theories to which her bosses subscribe. Now she's gone even further back, to lie about the origins of the Great Depression. Just one review, from the Wall Street Journal:
[R]eviewer Robert Merry writing: "The Coolidge years represent the country's most distilled experiment in supply-side economics—and the doctrine's most conspicuous success. That success is the central Coolidge legacy, brought home with telling authority in Ms. Shlaes's work. This book's timing is propitious."
Quite successful, if you ignore the Great Depression that was the result. Have we mentioned how much we despise these lying sacks of shit?

2 comments:

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

if the Coolidge years are teh MOST successful of the supply-side examples, what does it say about the huge bag of fail of all the other times?

Of course, what they don't say is that from their point of view, it was perfectly successful, as the fat rich fucks did just fine, and got their tiny willies excited by all the pain they were inflicting on the poors.

Because that is how they know they are righteous and noble. By the suffering of people they judge inferior.

Where's the fucking wall to put these shitwads up against?

Glennis said...

Well, in some way, yes, The Coolidge years ARE the most successful example of supply side economics. Right?

An object lesson, indeed.