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.

Politicians always and only lie. The unaccountable bureaucrats in the EU are just a particularly wretched example of the type. You'd have a significantly better rate of accuracy predicting what any given piece of legislation will do by assuming its the exact opposite of whatever it was titled.

Its not even a question of well-meaning stupidity or evil at this point. If they were merely misguided, they'd get it right occasionally if only by accident.

The real problem is those who were trusted have betrayed that trust. Horribly, blatantly, and continually.

If I cheat on my wife and lie about it for years, then she finds out and files for divorce, the problem isn't her lack of trust in the marriage.

It was never a valid tool.

No.

Seconded. May their efforts be rewarded with frustration and failure.

Yeah, every time your team doesn't win means that democracy is over. We've been hearing this from you and your ilk for freaking decades, and yet elections still happen. Stop drinking the lead paint for five minutes and calm down.