Oh, nobody? Then it's not a war.

Cash for clunkers destroyed that for another couple of decades.

The progressive worldview has been a disaster for humanity.

Cool. I feel the same way about unions.

If you want to turn people on to critical thinking, the way to do that is certainly not to outsource that thinking to the government.

The CCP is certainly not interested in that. They simply want to maintain the rule of their party.

Yep. You're evil.

You'd think that using the same terminology for your government schemes as ones that killed hundreds of millions of people would be a bad bit of marketing, but I guess you can get away with a lot when all your detractors are dead.

Any book. Its not hard.

Yep, and the carriage drivers and farriers were all unemployed forever too.

A good rule of thumb to follow is 'Krugman is always wrong about everything.' This is the guy who said things were great with the economy immediately before every major crash in his lifetime.

China shows off a Potemkin village of manufacturing, western execs claim to be scared. China gets to look better than it is, and the execs get to come beg the government for more subsidies, bailouts, and other artificial competitive advantages.

Its all bullshit. China never shows you anything real, and the execs of our crony companies never do anything but try to get more graft.

Yep, and the widespread use of the steam engine meant that all those laborers were unemployed forever.

You doomsayers never learn.

Arbitrary laws will be arbitrarily violated.

War is hell.

They don't have standing. This is just some state attorneys looking to make their names and get some revenue if they can get enough friendly rulings.