The last few days have been all about great analogies. I just read a spectacular, eye-catching analogy in the Opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal from Daniel Henninger's Obama's Tax Morass column (here). Usually I'll do a double take when I read the WSJ Opinion page when they mention a huge sum of money on spending, or the state of the government's deficit. This one came across differently.
"Barack Obama has a remarkable habit of dumping the responsibility for solving massive fiscal and political problems on someone else. After Congress shoveled its way through his original stimulus proposal in 2009, it spent a year erecting a Rube Goldberg apparatus around health care. What emerged from these great off-loadings of work was an even grander mess. The $825 billion stimulus did little for unemployment but jacked up the deficit. ObamaCare is now rumbling toward a terrified health-care industry like Godzilla bouncing off buildings on Main Street."
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