Get A Job So We Can Tax You

Brandon Stewart / April 06, 2010

After the first few lines of liberal columnist Thomas Friedman’s piece in Sunday’s New York Times, you would have thought he had finally seen the light:

“If we want to bring down unemployment in a sustainable way, neither rescuing General Motors nor funding road construction will do it.”

Yes, exactly. Maybe he’s finally seen the disastrous stimulus bill (that he supported) for what it is—a failure.

“We need to create a big bushel of new companies.”

Preach it, brother.

“We’ve got to get more Americans working again for their own dignity—”

Yes! Exactly!

“—and to generate the rising incomes and wealth we need to pay for existing entitlements, as well as all the new investments we’ll need to make.”

Say what? And he was doing so well. (more…)