Irony or not, I think it's only fair that the Obama administration should help sell Hayek's books, for they have used one of his more trenchant observations as a backbone of administration policy, and as far as I know, Hayek has been given absolutely no credit for it.
'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.
It's even been put on a bumper sticker:
While it technically might not qualify as plagiarism, in terms of irony, Rahm Emanuel's famous"You never want a serious crisis to go to waste" certainly comes close enough for government work.
So yeah, they should help sell his books!
Happy Birthday, F. A. Hayek!
MORE: Over at Instapundit.com I read that the date he'd linked before was mistaken, and that Hayek's real birthday was a few days later.
It seems that today our governments will make a crisis out
of anything. Creating panic, then declaring they have taken the appropriate action to control the contrived panic may work for a while.
The old theory, "the masses are asses." is being over worked.
The Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler
Don?t bang your head!
It seems that today our governments will make a crisis out
of anything. Creating panic, then declaring they have taken the appropriate action to control the contrived panic may work for a while.
The old theory, "the masses are asses." is being over worked.