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Trump Loses The Labor Market
Donald Trump just lost it. The US labor market, I mean.
Sure, you could argue hiring momentum slipp
Blame the news media for spreading these treasoness numbers.
Ah yes, my favorite H. L. Mencken quote, “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.”
He had some real bangers. A couple more:
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”
“On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
Prescient, that one.
HLM is one of my favorites. I have 250 pages of his very best.
Just what I needed; a main course of H followed by a Mencken digestif.