"Imagine" ≠ "Invent"

The General Rule of Lefties™ holds here. Whatever accusation they are making is more accurately applied to the Left. In this case, the lack of imagination applies squarely to the Left. They have not had a new idea in over a century.

The same is true of the Medicare attack. It is the Left who seeks to kill off Medicare. Obama made that clear when threatening to deny his grandmother a hip transplant. Yet, they point the finger at the Right.

Bravo.

Have you been to Russia? Because if you had you would realize that your comment is total nonsense. Russian roads aren't always exemplars of modern construction, particularly in rural areas, but it is laughable to suggest that if you are "50 miles from Moscow you are no longer on a paved surface."

More likely that they spend more on roads because it's a much larger geographical country that, by extension, requires greater road spending.

Too bad Dionne didn't have a chance to talk to my Bavarian friend while he was here visiting last week. The whole week he marveled at how good our roads are and that "they go everywhere." He compared prices wherever we went, and prices for all kinds of goods in the U.S. nearly always came out better. He complained about how they pay more for their health care because they are subsidizing those who don't pay anything. Sound familiar? He's a farmer and businessman who is burdened by overregulation--even more than here. He was stressed about the Greens winning yet another election and said two nuclear plants have already shut down. It makes no sense, he said, when well-built and safe German plants are shut down to then buy power from neighboring former Soviet satellites with unsafe plants. Sound familiar? My friend is so exasperated that he said if the Greens win anymore elections, he might just have to immigrate to the U.S. Oh, and they drive to Austria for their diesel because it's much cheaper. It seems to me that people like Dionne might spend a little more time talking to people other than those who agree with them.

It boils down to central planning. While the Chinese have embraced "state capitalism", they can't let go of central planning. Think their high speed rail is as good as Obama says it is? Guess again External Link 

Obama and the progressives can't just decree something be done like the Chinese (but Obama is trying), but rather create "markets" by distorting the formerly free market to favor their hearts' desire. Central planning seems to be such a natural tendency of government that we violate our own constitution to do it.

Over a century to say the least. The basics of corporatism, statism, higher taxes, mimicking authoritarian regimes, and spending a lot more on roads are several millenia old.

They don't even cost much! Instead all you can focus on is tax cuts for the rich.
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Huaser, for the life of me I cannot understand why liberals cannot understand simple budget concepts. Cutting taxes does not COST anything, unless you start from the premise that all money belongs to the government in the first place. MY MONEY IS NOT YOUR MONEY.

By the way, our fed government spends and misspends billions of dollars every year, on education, on roads, and on a whole lot of transferring wealth. The country as a whole needs to get serious about government spending, or our children and grandchildren will be saddled with debt they cannot possibly pay off. Why does all good have to come from Washington?

I will give you Eisenhower because of the freeway system, although is there anything else of consequence he did as President? And what did Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon do that was so great? I will not give an inch on Johnson whose big liberal ideas are part of what is bankrupting our country currently.