L.A. Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n\u201cTimes are now ripe for a renewed and robust defense of government,\u201d Schumer said in a speech to the liberal Center for American Progress Action Fund. And he clearly doesn\u2019t fear any potential downside. \u201cThe best way to deal with the tea party\u2019s obsessive anti-government mania is to confront it directly, by showing the people the need for government to help them out of their morass.\u201d<\/p>\n
Those who live in glass houses shouldn\u2019t throw stones. The real maniacs in Washington, D.C. are liberals like Schumer who think Americans are eager to be told how government will meddle even more in the economy. Raising the minimum wage in an anemic employment market is a sure way to increase joblessness. But maybe that\u2019s the point. The result is more people directly dependent on government outlays for their daily needs.<\/p>\n
And then there is the inflationary effect of government spending on the price of college tuition, as well as the fact that \u2018infrastructure investment\u2019 is really code for pork barrel projects channeled to public employee unions.<\/p>\n
Schumer\u2019s call for a full-throated defense of government may get cheers in the liberal salons of the NYC-DC corridor, but echoing it would bring swift electoral defeat for his colleagues in more conservative states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Talk about a New York state of mind. In the run-up to the 2014 election, U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) \u201ccharts an agenda for Congress that includes extending unemployment benefits, raising the minimum wage, making college more affordable and investing in infrastructure,\u201d according to the L.A. Times. \u201cTimes are now ripe for a renewed and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4073,53,27,2893,560,61,28],"class_list":["post-20025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-4073","tag-chuck-schumer","tag-jobs","tag-minimum-wage","tag-new-york","tag-spending","tag-tea-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20025"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20029,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20025\/revisions\/20029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}