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Can’t provide just one example?

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Peter Ferrara, director of entitlement and budget policy at the Institute for Policy Innovation, recently wrote a piece for The American Spectator entitled, “The Failure of Obamanomics.” He thinks Obama is a Keynesian.  The raging Obama hating causes delusion.

This morning Thom Hartmann interviewed him for his radio show. Thom asks him to provide just one example of a country in the history of the world that has successfully cut its way to prosperity. As poor Peter stumbles to search his precious mind for one, Thom reiterates his question and Ferrara freaks out and spouts all kinds of historical inaccuracies about our post Wold War I bubble that led directly to the Great Depression.

  • Camy Wu

    LOL, this is great. I heard this in my car this morning running errands. I was like, seriously? He was trembling and wrecked for the rest of the interview. Who takes these guys seriously. Oh wait, never mind.

  • Mark Krebs

    This guy’s freakout is great. He’s trembling after he flips out and I like the way Hartmann stays calm and sorta chuckles as he says, “calm down.” Even better was his fumbling just to find one example of his cut plan working. How the hell do you hold to an ideology if you can’t cite a single example of it working ever?

  • Anonymous

    I’ve met this idiot and he went to Harvard? Then again so did Dubya. Harvard, you really need to keep duds like this out. They give you a bad name. How do you produce rubbish like this?

    This guy is just so fundamentally misinformed. 

  • Anonymous

    Did Thom Hartmann say anything about this after the break?

  • Anonymous

    Thom Hartmann is brilliant. I really don’t get to listen to him much, but I like how he has conservatives and libertarians on his show and debates them. For progressive listeners, I think it’s good to hear how the other side thinks and approaches arguments. This one is especially enlightening.