Writes Sean Corrigan:
`We are the countries,’ write UK Chancellor Culpability Brown and US Treasury Secretary John Snow in the War St Journal [sic] – slipping arrogantly into ‘l’etat, c’est moi’ mode – `that gave the world… the light bulb, the telephone, television, the microchip, the jet engine, the microwave, the personal computer and the Internet.’
Brown in particular – a man who has never held down a proper, wealth-creating, private-sector job – but also Snow – a true alumnus of the US school of corporate welfare – would have a gall, claiming the credit for the long-ago achievements of Brunel, Babbage and Whittle, Edison, Ford and Gates, even if they were not confusing innovators and inventors with entrepreneurs!
Needless to say, in this bumptious piece of ‘City on the Hill’ pietist supremacy, they fail to mention the fact that their ilk also gave us the insidious evil of the Anglo-Dutch model of funded government financing, underwritten using the corrupted money of its Whig central banking claque!!!Anyone thinking Brown is doing anything positive for the cause of entrepreneurialism should skim the UK press for evidence of his oppressive, egalitarian hatred of excellence in favour of the self-defeating concept of ‘social inclusion’ – i.e. the pandering to ‘victim’ pressure groups and the feather-bedding of the feckless at the expense of the self-reliant middle class.
There, they will also grasp something of the scale of the vast transfer of resources to the public sector this soft-Stalinist is driving and they may further observe the incessant, corrosive drip-feed of feel-good, nanny-state, positivist-rights legislation which is crippling businesses everywhere.
All in all, this article – which also carries the hypocritical stench of a Bush flunkey boasting of supporting free trade – is truly a nauseous piece of pre-election, self-laudatory humbug!
9:13 am on May 24, 2004
