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A little wine, a little economic perspective...

Gary Vaynerchuk, host of the Wine Library TV online show, offering a little amateur economic commentary on NPR:

The stimulus plan in reverse has made people worry. Oh wait, if they're giving us money back, we're dead!

I've been so focused on the fact that the economic stimulus package is blatant pandering with no basis in economic fact or theory, and on the fact that they're just magically printing more money rather than tightening any belts or cutting any spending or lowering my taxes, that I have never stopped and thought about how dire things must look to politicians before they would think to give me money.

There's just something about the way Mr. Vaynerchuk said this that struck me different today (you can listen here - his wine commentary is great too, by the way). What a perversion of nature that I, a libertarian, should resent the money my politicians have sent me. We must have mucked things up pretty badly for it to get to this.