Will Ryan be as bad a president as Trump? Or worse?

I'm all for increased government spending that can a logical person can see how it generates future prosperity of our society. That is an investment, not just pissing away money.

Romeny had this to say, after Trump whole-heartedly endorsed Moore today: ""Roy Moore in the US Senate would be a stain on the GOP and on the nation. Leigh Corfman and other victims are courageous heroes. No vote, no majority is worth losing our honor, our integrity."

Funny thing about Smith's 'invisible hand'.

Many econ101 grads get him wrong. They think Smith was telling us that self-interests nonetheless tend to benefit society. But what Smith was actually saying is that import restrictions were unnecessary because locals preferred to buy from fellow local merchants anyhow, rather than from foreigners. Nonetheless, Smith's view was imperfect, since many people will pay for the thing that's on sale irrespective of where it's made, when for several reasons, they should probably be paying for the thing that costs 3-times as much.

And Shakespeare's 'the invisible hand' seems rather prescient. We find out that Macbeth's self-interest was his down-fall. It ended-up destroying those who supported it, with no benefit to society.

The 'invisible hand' is a metaphor for the failure of greedy self-interested design. You could stop using it

It’s been fun, but this site ain’t a place for sane people.

Two words, padwan:

President Trump's endorsement of Alabama Senate nominee Roy Moore on Monday prompted the Republican National Committee and a pro-Trump super PAC to re-enter the state, boosting a candidate who had been largely cut off by his party.

Senate Republican leaders remained critical of Moore on Monday, warning that the former judge is likely to face an immediate ethics probe if he is elected next week. But the America First Action super PAC, following Trump's lead, announced that it would spent $1.1 million to elect Moore, while the RNC said it was returning to the field after pulling out in mid-November.

The divergent attitudes toward Moore, who has been accused of making unwanted sexual advances toward teenage girls when he was in his 30s, underscored how polarizing a figure he would be among his party's national leaders if he wins the Dec. 12 special election.
Mitt Romney, the 2012 GOP presidential nominee and a potential Senate contender in Utah next year, wrote on Twitter that Moore becoming a senator "would be a stain on the GOP and on the nation."
Moore retorted that Romney had either "lost his courage or he doesn't care about truth anymore."

Sen. Richard C. Shelby (R-Ala.), who said he has already voted by write-in absentee ballot for an unnamed "distinguished Republican" who is not Moore, said in an interview Monday that he fears Moore's political style would not serve his state or the nation well.

"I think that he's thrived on controversy, and I don't believe anybody can thrive on controversy forever and not get burned up by it," Shelby said.
He added, "I don't believe that Roy Moore, if he was elected to the Senate, and he might be, would work in the Senate — I don't mean to go along to get along, I'm talking about to build the nation, build the state, at least as a lot of people believe we ought to do."

The real problem isn’t east coast elites who don’t understand or care about rural America. The real problem is rural America doesn’t understand the causes of their own situations and fears and they have shown no interest in finding out. They don’t want to know why they feel the way they do or why they are struggling because they don’t want to admit it is in large part because of choices they’ve made and horrible things they’ve allowed themselves to believe.

Since facts and reality don’t matter, nothing you say to them will alter their beliefs. “President Obama was born in Kenya, is a secret member of the Muslim Brotherhood who hates white Americans and is going to take away their guns.” I feel ridiculous even writing this, it is so absurd, but it is gospel across large swaths of rural America.

@Norton . . . after owning both a mortgage company and title company and originating, processing and closing thousands of residential mortgages of all kinds . . .

Yes, because God forbid an individual hold economic freedom in his or her own hands. Revealing. And more evidence American liberals prefer the rule of the unelected bureaucrat to the invisible hand. The arrogance in the quote above goes to the root of the angst here vis a vis Trump.