By ARMSTRONG WILLIAMS
In 2008, then-President-elect Barack Obama’s chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, famously said: “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that, it’s an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before.”
That lesson appears to have been well-learned by the left. The COVID-19 crisis has presented a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for the federal government to expand its reach into every crack and crevice of life. Under the pretext of mitigating the spread and “flattening the curve,” the economy has been shut down, businesses permanently closed, tens of millions of people left unemployed, our elderly left isolated and marooned, schools closed and children bereft of the halcyon days of their youth.
Pres. George W. Bush gives actor Matthew McConaughey advice for running for Texas governor
AUSTIN, TEXAS – MARCH 09: Matthew McConaughey attended the “The Beach Bum” Premiere 2019 SXSW Conference and Festivals at Paramount Theatre on March 09, 2019 in Austin, Texas. (Photo by Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for SXSW)
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Actor Matthew McConaughey received sound advice about running for Texas governor from President George W. Bush.
In an interview on Thursday, the former president said the actor should ignore the critics if he decides to run for office.
Last month, McConaughey floated the idea of a gubernatorial bid for the Lone Star State, a position Bush held prior to becoming president.
In 2008, then-President-elect Barack Obamaâs chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, famously said: âYou never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that, itâs an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before.â
That lesson appears to have been well-learned by the left. The COVID-19 crisis has presented a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for the federal government to expand its reach into every crack and crevice of life. Under the pretext of mitigating the spread and âflattening the curve,â the economy has been shut down, businesses permanently closed, tens of millions of people left unemployed, our elderly left isolated and marooned, schools closed and children bereft of the halcyon days of their youth.
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Robert Mundell, the Nobel Prize-winner and supply-side economist who was considered the intellectual father of the euro, has died. He was 88.
His death was confirmed by Sophia Johnson, assistant director of the program for economic research at Columbia University, where Mundell was professor emeritus.
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A Columbia University professor of economics, Mundell won the Nobel Prize in economics in 1999 for his theory that flexible markets, including the free movement of labour and capital, are necessary for a single-currency zone to succeed. His research helped lay the foundation for the euro, set up by 11 European governments earlier that year.
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