Commentary President Joe Biden must have been reading W.W. Jacobs, an English writer of charming short stories who wrote around the turn of the Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries. Jacobs’ stories are often related through the mouth of a night-watchman at a wharf in London’s docks. “An Odd Freak” begins: “‘Speaking o’ money,’ said the night-watchman, thoughtfully, as he selected an empty soap-box on the wharf for a seat, ‘the whole world would be different if we all ’ad more of it. It would be a brighter and a ’appier place for everybody.’” The President has taken this message, so obviously true, to heart. The night-watchman has become his economic guru. Thanks to the President, then, everyone will soon have much more money than before, though (as is always the way) some will get more of it into their hands than others, depending on whether or not they are government contractors, …
-
Recent Posts
-
Archives
- May 2025
- April 2025
- July 2023
- June 2023
- May 2023
- April 2023
- March 2023
- February 2023
- January 2023
- December 2022
- November 2022
- October 2022
- September 2022
- August 2022
- July 2022
- June 2022
- May 2022
- April 2022
- March 2022
- February 2022
- January 2022
- December 2021
- November 2021
- October 2021
- September 2021
- August 2021
- July 2021
- June 2021
- May 2021
- April 2021
- March 2021
- February 2021
- January 2021
- December 2020
- September 2013
- July 2013
- March 2013
- January 2013
- December 2012
- November 2012
- December 1
-
Meta