Bush the Plumber?
October 31, 2015
“I can fix things,” Jeb Bush told a tiny group of people Punta Gorda, Florida yesterday. I doubt it. If his name was Jeb Shrub instead of Jeb Bush, I doubt that he would have the wits and intelligence to become a good plumber who could fix your leaky toilet tank. And as Donald Trump might say, it takes a lot of energy to work a job like that, too.
Dr. Thomas DiLorenzo [send him mail] is a former professor of economics at Loyola University Maryland and a longtime member of the senior faculty of the Mises Institute. He is the author or co-author of eighteen books including The Real Lincoln; How Capitalism Saved America; Lincoln Unmasked; Hamilton's Curse; Organized Crime: The Unvarnished Truth About Government; The Problem with Socialism; and The Politically-Incorrect Guide to Economics.

