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Ben Stein: The 7 Big Lessons of 2010
By Ben Stein - AOL NewsBebeto Matthews, AP Ben Stein. OK, class, what have we learned in 2010? 1) That Afghanistan is a very difficult place to conquer and have it stay conquered. If the British couldn't do it, and if the Soviet Union could not do it while willing to use unlimited brutality, we are not going to find it easy to do it. In fact, whoever thought we could do it, and in so doing unravel a millennia of cultural problems, tribal rivalries, habits of corruption and hatred of the infidel, was not aware of history. We should just be very thankful that Mr. Putin and Mr. Medvedev are not giving the ...
Ben Stein: The Fed's New Stimulus Plan Will ... Anyone? Anyone?
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Bebeto Matthews, AP Among other things, Ben Stein is an economist. (Nov. 12) -- What is "quantitative easing" and why are all those professors, pundits and foreign finance ministers saying so many bad things about it? Let me tell you. The nation, as we all know, is in at best a shallow, slow, painful recovery from a cruel recession. Our leaders want the recovery to come sooner and more vigorously. There are basically two ways to stimulate the economy, economists generally believe. One is by "fiscal policy," which is by running large government deficits that supply missing private demand ...
Reader Feedback: Did Ben Stein 'Diss' the Unemployed?
By not in system - AOL News(July 23) -- I have just read what Ben Stein really said about the unemployed, and in my opinion, he "dissed" the unemployed ("'Dissing' the Unemployed? No Way, No How"). I am now retired, but many of the people I saw in my working life had poor work habits and difficult personalities, but they were not the first ones laid off. The first laid off were usually those on the lower rung who had no connections. It isn't what you do or how well you do it, it's who you know and how brown your nose is. This has always been true and hard economic times doesn't change that. R. Petrowski Sun City West, ...
Ben Stein: 'Dissing' the Unemployed? No Way, No How
By Ben Stein - AOL News(July 20) -- Today, AOL posted an essay on WalletPop by an unemployed father, an Aaron Crowe in the San Francisco area, which, to put it mildly, unfairly claims I "dissed the unemployed" as a way of helping the fight against extending unemployment benefits. I wish the author well as a freelance writer, but here's what I really said: 1) I said that of the unemployed I know, many have poor work habits and difficult personalities. I made no claim to have made any scientific study of unemployment generally and indeed have not done so. It is a fact that in my experience, the people who have the ...
Opinion: A Few Facts on Tax Cuts and Deficits
By Ben Stein - AOL News(July 14) -- As we speak, Congress and the media are debating whether to let President George Bush's income tax cuts expire at the end of 2010, as they will do without congressional action. The leading Democrats are in favor of allowing taxes to rise on taxpayers with incomes of (roughly) $250,000 a year for families, but want to keep taxes low on other, lower-income taxpayers. The GOP leadership says that allowing taxes to rise on the more well-to-do will stymie the fragile recovery and discourage investment. They say that keeping taxes low encourages growth to an extent that it actually ...
Ben Stein: What My Father Left Me
By Ben Stein - AOL News(June 19) -- Recently, I spoke to a gathering of successful men and women in money management in a New England city. One of the men there asked me if I had a private jet. I laughed and told him I could not even remotely afford a plane of my own. He said he was surprised. He said he assumed I was rich because I had a famous father in the world of money. "No," I said. "No plane." And then I added, "He left me a lot more than money." Bettmann / Corbis The author's father, Herbert Stein (pictured at left), testifies before Congress in March 1973, when he served as chairman of the Council of ...
Ron Paul Supporters Stage Internet Coup Today
By David Knowles - Politics DailySay what you want about Ron Paul and his legion of tech-savvy supporters, but they do make the Republican party a whole lot more interesting to watch. Case in point? As Politico's Ben Stein reports, Paul-ites (the most commonly used term to describe Paul's followers) have recently flocked to a Digg-like webstie set up by the RNC and flooded it with questions for the debate between candidates for the Chairmanship of that distinguished, if not slightly demoralized, body. The implicit promise made at Americans for Tax Reform is that you, the public, will be allowed to submit questions to be asked ...
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