re: $75,000 Per Household
February 18, 2014
And let’s not forget, Laurence, that Dick Cheney personally stormed into the office of economist Larry Lindsey, Bush’s top economic advisor, to fire him on the spot for publicly stating that he thought the Iraq War could cost as much as $200 billion (the latest estimate is as much as $6 trillion). Cheney informed Lindsey, the Harvard-trained economist, that Paul Wolfowitz assured him that the war would actually pay for itself, if not turn a profit via oil revenues.
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.
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