On Feb 3, 7:09*am, Michel Boucher > wrote:
> Bobo Bonobo® > wrote in news:e3f3b2f1-657d-49e3-a274-
> :
>
> > Funny, but 10, 12 years ago I seemed like a left wing loony for my
> > Keynesianness, and belief that the ideas of Alan Greenspan were wrong,
> > wrong, wrong. *I haven't changed, but a lot of other folks sure have.
> > Now, I seem darned near mainstream.
>
> Someone said there are no atheists in foxholes, and just as surely, there
> are no libertarians in economic crises. *

There are still a few. They've just gone into hiding. Mammon worship
is a fundamentalist religion, and we know that fundie religios don't
always respond to reason.

> Case in point, the government of
> Canada brought down what the party ideologues consider a "far left wing"
> (tm applied for) budget, in other words a budget of measures the slightly
> more centrist party, the Liberals, insisted were a condition for Harper to
> cling desperately to shreds of power.
>
> Why the man wants to run the country at this time completely eludes me. *

I was under the impression that Canada is getting off a bit easier
than most other First World nations.
>
> --
>
> Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest
> of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest
> good of everyone. - John Maynard Keynes

--Bryan