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Don’t Send Me Money

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie demonstrates why he’s a stand-up thinker in a July 9 talk at The Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. Asked if he would support a federal subsidy to hire more public employees at the state level, Gov. Christie  refused to take the bait, saying that approach “is always a temporary band-aid,” when applied as a means to reduce unemployment. “The fact of the matter is I have more government employees per square mile than any state in America. Please don’t send me any more money to hire more public employees. Please don’t.” H/T Riehl World View

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The Same Old Deal

Why has the Obama Administration’s stimulus sputtered and the economic recovery ground to a halt? Reason.TV’s Michael C. Moynihan talks to UCLA economist Lee Ohanian who says the failures are easy to explain: President Obama has attempted to construct a new New Deal, disregarding the fact that the original New Deal was a bust that might have actually prolonged the Great Depression by seven years.

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