What Kind of Freedom?
Obama to award Medal of Freedom to 15, including investor Buffett … President Obama will award the Medal of Freedom to billionaire investor Warren Buffett, one of 15 recipients who will be given the country’s highest civilian honor, the White House said … Among the other Medal of Freedom recipients will be former president George H.W. Bush; German Chancellor Angela Merkel … poet Maya Angelou … and labor chief John Sweeney. – Washington Post
Dominant Social Theme: The US government is at again, honoring the VIPs that mean the most to the American people.
Free-Market Analysis: We are reminded of a certain book when we read who is getting freedom medals from Barack Obama; but more on that at the end of this article. Warren Buffet is a kind of Keynesian socialist in our humble view, while George H. W. Bush is the former head of the CIA (as well as a former president), Angela Merkel is the quasi-socialist head of a combined Germany, Maya Angelou, a fine writer, is an activist feminist (by sympathy if not profession); labor chief John Sweeney was the president of the AFL-CIO from 1995 to 2009.
All of these people in their own way have seemingly advocated using the force of government to support policies that they prefer. In fact, it strikes us that these medals support a kind of sub-dominant social theme – that freedom has to do (somehow) with empowering state activism, whether through financial regulation, government intelligences ops, feminist activism or labor law.
And now… the rest of the story. …..
Harold
