Sunday, November 01, 2009
"The Administration's Flu Fear-Mongering"
So far, predictions have been wrong, and we should hope it stays that way.
Of course, politics are involved here, so it's hard to know what motivations are behind those predictions...
Of course, politics are involved here, so it's hard to know what motivations are behind those predictions...
This is from an Michael Fumento Investors Business Daily opinion column:
"Ironically, this new emergency declaration can only help bring porcine flu panic to greater heights.
Why issue it, then? Maybe because government, as H.L. Mencken observed, ever seeks '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.'
Perhaps the Obama administration doesn't deserve such cynicism in this matter. Perhaps. But if it reacts so poorly to a noncrisis, what can we expect when it's faced with a real one?"
