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Because of perspective, history and associations, everyone has a certain amount of political bias. Hence, another reason to steer clear of too much political talk. Every so often, though, you can get a fresh perspective on the whole mess if you open your mind and read something that was written by someone you don’t normally identify with. The urge to make sense of it all never really goes away completely. The title needs to catch your eye with some ironic or unexpected phrase. Here’s one: “Nanny State Conservative.” When you see how ridiculous the whole concept is, you too will want out. Because the following author/economist (below) is either completely head-in-sand or insane. It’s the CORRUPTED conservatives who are in favor of any nanny-state crap! A real free-trade person would never go along with this.

Dean Baker, a clever author and economist, evidently identifies with political “progressives,” but he also has no problem criticizing their thought processes - at times. His bias does stick out horribly, but he has a few good points in this book, “The Conservative Nanny State: How the Wealthy Use the Government to Stay Rich and Get Richer.” I read the e-book from the beginning, through the preface and introduction which summarizes all the chapters, and concluded that I’ll now try to ignore politics again for the rest of the weekend.

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by ike