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The New Deal exists principally on an emotional plane for Obama. To him, the New Deal is something you play like a song, to make you or your constituents feel better.

~Amity Shlaes

Topics: Better Constituents Deal Emotional Exists Feel Him Like Make New New Deal Obama Plane Play Principally Something Song You Your

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McCain likes strong defense, and he's viscerally suspicious of big companies. So he's more a Square Deal guy than a New Deal guy.

~Amity Shlaes

Topics: Big Big Companies Companies Deal Defense Guy He Likes Mccain More New New Deal Square Strong Suspicious Than

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What's wrong with the auto industry isn't that it failed to create jobs. What's wrong is that it emphasizes jobs over general growth itself.

~Amity Shlaes

Topics: Auto Auto Industry Create Failed General Growth Industry Itself Jobs Over Wrong

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The Grand Old Party's abiding affection for a 'bigger and better' presidency isn't entirely logical. After all, the Obama presidency commenced with an effort to reenact the Hundred Days. Yet President Obama's first-term economic performance itself was not 'big' but mediocre - tiny, even.

~Amity Shlaes

Topics: Abide Affection After Better Big Bigger Days Economic Effort Entirely Even Grand Hundred Itself Logical Mediocre Obama Old Party Performance Presidency President Tiny

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Although unions may be good for a worker, singular, they are not always good for workers, plural. Especially when it comes to finding a job.

~Amity Shlaes

Topics: Although Always Finding Good Job May Singular Unions Worker Workers

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Young parents in America are holy and not to be messed with. If they say something is correct, we all acquiesce. And is there any man, woman or canine who doesn't leap out of the way when one of those giant, all-terrain Bugaboo strollers comes barreling down the sidewalk?

~Amity Shlaes

Topics: Acquiesce America Any Correct Down Giant Holy Leap Man Messed Out Parents Say Sidewalk Something They Say Those Way Who Woman Young

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Democrats who see virtue in the estate tax are doing the equivalent of aborting future enterprises. They deprive businesses of oxygen with their support for capital gains taxes and disregard for contracts.

~Amity Shlaes

Topics: Businesses Capital Contracts Democrats Deprive Disregard Doing Enterprises Equivalent Estate Future Gains Oxygen See Support Tax Taxes Virtue Who

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There's something unsettling about the education of a child who comfortably enumerates the rules for surviving zombie apocalypse but finds it uncomfortable to enumerate the rules of his grandparents' faith, if he knows them.

~Amity Shlaes

Topics: About Apocalypse Child Comfortably Education Faith Finds Grandparents He His Knows Rules Something Surviving Them Uncomfortable Unsettling Who Zombie

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It takes only a few seconds to make history new again.

~Amity Shlaes

Topics: Again Few History Make New Only Seconds Takes

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Europe unified its monetary policy through the euro before it unified politically, therefore sustaining member countries' abilities to pursue the kind of independent fiscal policies that can strain a joint currency.

~Amity Shlaes

Topics: Ability Before Countries Currency Euro Europe Fiscal Independent Joint Kind Member Monetary Monetary Policy Policies Policy Politically Pursue Strain Sustaining Therefore Through Unified

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: September 10th, 1960

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