Immense Waste of Time

Join dozens of Coloradoans and listen to Socialist Muppet Jay Marvin interview David Sirota, who not only misrepresents* my positions, but rails against 35 years of economic growth, capitalism and reality.

Sirota claims that government agencies are more efficient than private industry, because, get this, government is a “small d” democratic organization. We all have a say. Geez, hundreds of millions of consumers who make decisions every minute beg to differ. The difference is called coercion. Government, necessary in certain instances, provides no choices. The free market, based on voluntary transactions, offers us almost unlimited choices. That’s why free markets have provided the greatest prosperity known to man, and Sirota’s model created East Germany.

Those are the basics. So I can’t believe this guy actually writes about economics. It would be nice if he pointed to single PhD economist who backs up any of his harebrained theories. Because debating someone who references himself as the source of fact, is not a person worth debating.

As for hypocrite Jay Marvin, he says he doesn’t care for “big business.” Who pays him? I wonder who he thinks built the building he sits in? Or the technology he uses to reach his listener? Or the food he eats? Or the medicine that may save his life one day? Or car he drives to work? (Or does he ride a bicycle?) And so on …

I suppose, unlike real journalists — whose work is vetted by editors and mistakes corrected — partisan activists like Sirota and Marvin can walk through life without ever being challenged. Though I must say, as a columnist who takes numerous positions outside the conservative mainstream, being accused of ideological “fundamentalism” by two lock-stepping lefties is certainly worth a giggle.

*By “misrepresents” I mean he “makes it up.”

(Cross-posted with Gang of Four.)