Another free marketeer tucks tail and hides

Today it is with great joy that I announce the latest intellectual surrender by a free marketeer to the seductive power of government money. Ben Stein, apparently on a break from equating evolution with Nazism, has written a column about the need for a bailout. Try not to laugh as you read statements such a:s"

Amazingly, we can have whole fleets of C-130's fly to remote areas of Iraq and Afghanistan with pallets of hundred dollar bills piled from floor to ceiling. Then we can pass them out to warlords who make tea for our soldiers one hour and blow their guts out the next. We can send CIA operatives into Somalia and give millions, maybe hundreds of millions, to warlords to fight other killers.".

Hmm Mr. Stein, maybe you should have thought about that before groveling to Bush during his reelection? Of course this is the same guy who said that "Everything will be fine, just get back to work" in September. He also said that the economy is basically in fine shape in late October when the market melted down. It is always nice to see an ideologue forced to accept reality, though I am sure the second stocks have an uptick he will be back on the free markets, no regulation bandwagon.

PS. This is the same guy at an interview who stated that "science leads to killing."