Making Lemonade From a Lemon Named George Pataki

Calling for Republican party phonies to step aside and make way for Abe Lincoln.

All the rivers run into the sea,
Yet the sea is not full;
—Ecclesiastes

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Another has been who believes the private sector can be "incentivized" by smaller government...




First, the private sector over the past forty years has been "incentivized" to a gross, imbalanced degree in the area of finance. Yet this already has proven a least effective way (and a most fraud-rife one, as well) of serving the economic posterity of the nation. This is so obvious that, dinosaurs like Pataki only reveal their coming extinction from the political planet when breathing such things as claim the private sector lacks adequate incentives. The private sector lacks confidence in the rule of law that was supposed to protect against such dangerous vulnerabilities as we presently face.

It is foremost in the area of finance that a new, public corporation — the Third National Bank of the United States — will make for a more active government, not a docile one, such as the likes of George Pataki advocate. Mr. Pataki's pitch only serves to reveal the capital starved desperation of bankrupt enterprises. We should expect nothing less from the like who fail the courage to properly do the job they have chosen in life, as have many good Americans before who, indeed, were sensitive to the nation's struggle against tyranny, unlike Mr. Pataki who believes we need further incentivize a financial tyrant by scaling back the institution charged with its oversight. We have no more blind eyes to turn, George.

—Tom Chechatka