Scott Brown’s bill of goods about the economy
Scott Browns bill of goods about the economy
By Greg Sargent
Senator Scott Brown has an Op ed in Politico today in which he hits President Obama and Elizabeth Warren over the didnt build that controversy, arguing that Warren is essentially the intellectual inspiration for Obamas speech and that the idea driving Warrens candidacy is anti-free enterprise.
Thats par for the course. But theres a nugget within Browns Op ed thats worth a look, because it gives away the game, revealing what this whole didnt build that controversy is really about:
This anti-free enterprise attitude, epitomized by Elizabeth Warren, the liberal Harvard professor who has made it the calling card of her Senate campaign against me, is that every achievement in life is a collective effort....
These entrepreneurs understand better than any politician where small businesses fit in the community, and how, in a free society, we all depend on one another....
Only the most rigid ideologue would come along and insist that these men and women the ones who do most of the hiring in America have failed in some duty to their communities or to their country.
Americas entrepreneurs have built great things on their own. If only leftists like Warren and all Occupy protesters werent so wrapped up in taxing and regulating them without end or in denigrating their achievements, these men and women would do even greater things and hire even more workers.
In Browns telling, whats really preventing businesses from
hiring more workers is Warrens disdain for their achievements. You can almost hear the small business persons lament: I would
like to hire you, but I cant, because Elizabeth Warren is demeaning my success by arguing that I didnt succeed in a vacuum!
This is what this whole thing has been about from the start. It's about selling voters a bill of goods a narrative about what ails the economy that obscures the fact that Republicans dont have a plan to fix the short term unemployment crisis. Brown and Mitt Romney want voters to believe that the recovery is being held back by taxes, regulations, and Obamas and Warrens disdain for your success. If we just put people in charge who want people to succeed who would of course promptly cut regulations, government and taxes on the rich then the recovery will roar forward.
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