You and I Really Run the Country
John Stossel make a great point in his column Who Will Run America?
Some of you think you went to the polls yesterday to pick someone to run America.
“Who do you want to have run this country?” Chris Matthews asked repeatedly on MSNBC.
“One of these guys is going to be running the country,” said Michael Goodwin of the New York Daily News.
Really? Run the country?
“That has to be a joke — or a misunderstanding,” said George Mason University economist Walter Williams on my recent TV special, “John Stossel’s Politically Incorrect Guide to Politics”.
Williams pointed out that the White House doesn’t govern what happens in your house. And a president certainly cannot control the economy. We, all of us, run the country.
“Politicians have immense power to do harm to the economy. But they have very little power to do good,” Williams says.
The failure to understand this is at the root of many of our problems.
If Williams is right, a lot of Obama‘s supporters are going to be very disappointed when their expectations don’t come true.
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