Ezra Klein Advocates for Small Government
October 27, 2010
Ezra Klein, like so many big-government proponents, actually supports individual freedom - at least when it's his freedom at stake. In this video, he describes his experience as a victim of bullying. He notes that "It gets better" because when you grow up, you can move away from the bullies.
What about when the bullies are government officials who make it impossible to run your business? What about the bullies who control how much you can charge for your services? What about the bullies in the Federal Reserve who steal taxpayer money to enrich Goldman Sachs?
Getting away from these bullies isn't quite so easy. And yet Klein remains an advocate of Big Government.
Only someone with a pathological case of cognitive dissonance would not see the parallels between bullying and living in the United States: