The $787 billion federal spending spree we are all but required by law to call a “stimulus package” is many things, all of which are thoroughly contemptible and economically ruinous. It is a veritable piñata of plunder made plump with plentiful perks and payouts to various Democratic Party-aligned parasites. For the devout Keynesian, the measure is the fiscal equivalent of hard-core pornography; perhaps this is the only sense in which it should be called a “stimulus” bill. One imagines the typical Keynesian, his face flushed, his pupils dilated, sweat beading on his upper lip, hair sprouting on his palms, grunting: … Continue reading Turning ‘Mr. Hand’ into ‘Mr. Fist’