Review & Outlook: The Small Beer Bill - WSJ.com

ECONOMY LIKE A LARGE SHIP - ONCE SLOWED, HARDER TO GET MOVING AGAIN AND UP TO SPEED; HARD TO MAKE UP FOR LOST GROUND: Review & Outlook: The Small Beer Bill - WSJ.com: "- Sent using Google Toolbar"

To see what heavy unionism, taxation and government interference mean, it's interesting to read the article in the Weekend WSJ on the new French cuisine - i.e. the government (France in this case) takes so much out of the economy and transfers it to unions and rewards for poor and no productivity (early retirement) that the economy can no longer support fancier, higher priced restaurants.

Clearly the Dems don't realize that at the end of the day, success should be rewarded and lack of interest, laziness, stupidity, etc. - if not discouraged, at least not rewarded.

One somehow thinks of the energy to keep a large economy, like a large battleship or aircraft carrier going? In other words, once it slows down (as the Obama policies are doing to the US economy), it is much harder to get it back up to speed (in terms of both time and energy).

As the Obama policies are holding back and slowing the economy, every day that goes by with these policies in force means it is going to take longer and more energy (effort, investment, etc.) to get it back going again.

Of course there is also the fact that the economy has permanently fallen behind where it could have been (can we think the 1970's)?