It's not about waiting to see how the game turns out. It's about deciding what the plays will be, who will be starting pitcher, what strategies will be used, what responses will be appropriate for the other team's plays, and long-term plans for the team, player selection, and balancing salaries with skills.
In a democracy, we get to pick the coach, and a lot of the players.
Either we develop the knowledge to make rational political decisions, or we don't. If not, we'll keep picking our leaders by how nicely they talk, how pretty they look, and how they make us "feel." Almost every frigging tyrant in human history had enormous personal magnetism.
There's a reason societies make the same stupid mistakes over and over again, and God knows our education system is no help in this area.
Lee made a good point. Switzerland manages to be a decent, clean society without treating businesses as Enemies of the People. America's business tax environment is one of the worst on the planet.
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Wrong.
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- I do not understand something about *this* recession...[big surprise]
- There was well over 200 billion worth of tax cuts in that stimulus package
- Once the markers were called...
- (targeted) government spending produces more jobs than tax cuts.
- re: I do not understand something about *this* recession
- Money
- Because this time, the tax cut came first.