Atlas Shrugged: The Mocking

Monday, June 22, 2009

All Our My Troubles Are Over

Megan McArdle informs us that as far as she is concerned the depression is over, for her boyfriend has found an internship at the magazine that once employed McArdle herself. Young Mr. Suderman once again is working for a company affiliated with a Koch, spreading the Good News about free markets. David H. Koch is a trustee of both Reason Foundation and the Aspen Institute, and the Aspen Institute and the Atlantic Monthly both sponsor the Aspen Ideas Festival. How cosy!

David Koch is the second richest man in New York after Michael Bloomberg, and is director of the Cato Institute. Reason is Libertarisn, as is Cato.

Specific policy proposals advanced by Cato scholars include such measures as
abolishing the minimum wage,[42] reforming illegal-drug policies,[43]
eliminating corporate welfare and trade barriers,[44] diminishing federal
government involvement in the marketplace[45] and in local and state issues,[46]
enhanced school choice,[47] abolishing government-enforced discrimination,
including both traditionally conservative racial profiling and traditionally
liberal affirmative action, and abolishing restrictions on discrimination by
private parties.[48]

They are also working to eliminate Social Security. These policies are very much the same as the ones McArdle espouses, unsurprisingly. It's wonderful that these two young people can find work supporting the policies of the richest people in the country, and no doubt when our Elite achieve their goals of eliminating all unfair taxes on the rich, Megan and Peter will be tossed out in the street once again, their jobs done and their usefulness at an end.

5 comments:

Downpuppy said...

eliminating all unfair taxes on the rich

Unfair?

Most all of the Village is hopelessly compromised - that's why we call it the Village. Megan & the Atlantic crew just do it with crayons.

Susan of Texas said...

I should say "unfair."

Heh. They are a paint-by-numbers bunch, who think they are creating masterpiees.

Ken Houghton said...

"no doubt when our Elite achieve their goals of eliminating all taxes on the rich, Megan and Peter will be tossed out in the street once again, their jobs done and their usefulness at an end."

Or when the Elites finally realise that paying people such as those two to, er, make the argument is not cost-effective, since they make us more sympathetic to "Eat the Rich" than "Cut the Tax."

zhakora said...

no doubt when our Elite achieve their goals of eliminating all unfair taxes on the rich, Megan and Peter will be tossed out in the street once again, their jobs done and their usefulness at an end

We can hope, certainly.

clever pseudonym said...

Wait - Megan and Peter are useful now?