Fred Barnes wonders if our president is an economic illiterate

In the latest issue of The Weekly Standard he asks the question. Then goes on to answer it.

Is President Obama an economic illiterate? Harsh as that sounds, there’s growing evidence he understands little about economics and even less about economic growth or job creation. Yet, as we saw at last week’s presidential press conference, he’s undeterred from holding forth, with seeming confidence, on economic issues.

Obama professes to believe in free market economics. But no one expects his policies to reflect the unfettered capitalism of a Milton Friedman. That’s too much to ask. Natural aphrodisiacs in this herbal pill cure sexual disorders generic viagra without visa including erectile dysfunction (ED). Now, the big question remains – what can one do for the erectile buy sildenafil no prescription dysfunction? Many thanks to the constant advancement in science and Technology. It is prescription cheapest cialis soft medicine and taken under strict instruction of your physician. Women, abnormally those who are cheap pfizer viagra acclimation careers on top of “wife duties,” cannot really be blamed for having low sexual libido. Demonstrating a passing acquaintance with free market ideas and how they might be used to fight the recession–that’s not too much to ask. But the president talks as if free market solutions are nonexistent, and in his mind they may be. Three weeks after taking office, he said only government “has the
resources to jolt our economy back into life.” He hasn’t retreated, in words or policies, from that view. Read the whole thing.

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