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- From: mjkugel@iastate.edu (Michael J Kugel)
- Subject: Re: Flip-flop?!?
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- References: <1993Jan18.140800.5403@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de> <30589@castle.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 16:56:48 GMT
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- In article <30589@castle.ed.ac.uk> barryb@castle.ed.ac.uk (Barry A T Brown) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan18.140800.5403@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de>, ggoebel@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de (Garrett Goebel) writes:
- >
- >
- >|> 3) Isn't the budget the issue?
- >|>
- >|> Foreign policy and economic stimulus aside, the best possible thing the
- >|> Clinton administration could do would be to cut the budget deficit. If
- >|> that means dropping every single campaign promise to get the job done, he
- >|> will have proven himself a great President.
- >|>
- >|> Really now, we should all know buy now that government intervention in
- >|> the market place means increased inefficiency.
- >
- >This is a point that conservatives like to "presume" has been proved. If
- >anything the contrary is true - The Japanise, Korean and German governments
- >all take a very active government intervention policy. Countrys that don't-
- >e.g Britain + America have less successful economys.
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- Less successful economies by what standard? The US has the highest GDP
- per capita of any industrial economy and the highest productivity in
- the world. Europe has been practicing state intervention (like industrial
- policy) for the last 20 years and it hasn't worked.
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- Mike.
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