Comments on: J.M. Keynes on American Conservatism http://www.frumforum.com/j-m-keynes-on-american-conservatism Building a conservatism that can win again Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:50:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: sinz54 http://www.frumforum.com/j-m-keynes-on-american-conservatism/comment-page-1#comment-82033 sinz54 Sat, 06 Feb 2010 19:43:27 +0000 http://www.frumforum.com/?p=21700#comment-82033 I should have added that Keynes did not believe in permanent Federal deficits, especially not for permanent redistributionist schemes like Medicare and Medicaid. Keynes saw pump-priming as a temporary aid for an economy that had temporarily stumbled. He did NOT see Federal spending as an excuse to remake America along socialist lines. But Obama, like FDR before him, cherry-picks lines out of Keynes' works to rationalize their pre-conceived notions about making America more like a European social democracy. I should have added that Keynes did not believe in permanent Federal deficits, especially not for permanent redistributionist schemes like Medicare and Medicaid. Keynes saw pump-priming as a temporary aid for an economy that had temporarily stumbled. He did NOT see Federal spending as an excuse to remake America along socialist lines.

But Obama, like FDR before him, cherry-picks lines out of Keynes’ works to rationalize their pre-conceived notions about making America more like a European social democracy.

]]> By: sinz54 http://www.frumforum.com/j-m-keynes-on-american-conservatism/comment-page-1#comment-81995 sinz54 Sat, 06 Feb 2010 16:33:50 +0000 http://www.frumforum.com/?p=21700#comment-81995 Keynes said that, while his own work provided a plausible rationale for politicians to do what they always wanted to do: Spend money on pork projects. Keynes lived long enough to see his ideas perverted into pork and redistributionist schemes. Did he ever speak out against those? Keynes said that, while his own work provided a plausible rationale for politicians to do what they always wanted to do: Spend money on pork projects.

Keynes lived long enough to see his ideas perverted into pork and redistributionist schemes. Did he ever speak out against those?

]]> By: nancyanny http://www.frumforum.com/j-m-keynes-on-american-conservatism/comment-page-1#comment-81989 nancyanny Sat, 06 Feb 2010 15:22:57 +0000 http://www.frumforum.com/?p=21700#comment-81989 don't know how your conservative readership will embrace your embracing keynes' socialist economic ideals :) i appreciate it, and do find relevance indeed. don’t know how your conservative readership will embrace your embracing keynes’ socialist economic ideals :) i appreciate it, and do find relevance indeed.

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