Thursday, February 19, 2009

Quote of the day...

Quick, who said the following?
...the US should take a lesson from the pages of Russian history and not exercise “excessive intervention in economic activity and blind faith in the state’s omnipotence”.

“In the 20th century, the Soviet Union made the state’s role absolute. In the long run, this made the Soviet economy totally uncompetitive. This lesson cost us dearly. I am sure nobody wants to see it repeated.”

“Nor should we turn a blind eye to the fact that the spirit of free enterprise, including the principle of personal responsibility of businesspeople, investors, and shareholders for their decisions, is being eroded in the last few months. There is no reason to believe that we can achieve better results by shifting responsibility onto the state.”
Who said that?


Rush Limbaugh?


No.


Sean Hannity?


No.


Karl Rove?


No.


Dubya?



No.


Give up?



Drum roll please...

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The answer is...


That's right, folks. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. Putin said this during a speech at the opening ceremony of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

You can read it in an article entitled, "Putin Warns the US about Socialism."

1 comment:

Joshua Butcher said...

And Putin is only scratching the surface:

http://ironink.org/index.php?blog=1&title=obama_re_making_america&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1