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Re: Ben Stein (none / 0)

LOL. The last line says it all>

Ben Stein is a lawyer, writer, actor and economist.

with a comedian complex.

Our knowledge has surpassed our wisdom. -Charu Saxena.

by metavision on Sun Feb 25th, 2007 at 02:56:11 PM EST
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Re: Ben Stein (none / 1)

Actually Stein is a comedian (he had a comic quiz show for a number of years). He uses his connection to his father the real economist Herbert Stein to bolster his lack of credentials.

He is a good barometer of the conventional Libertarian/neo-con mind set in the US which is suffering from an identity crisis currently.

Policies not Politics
---- Daily Landscape

by rdf (robert.feinman@gmail.com) on Sun Feb 25th, 2007 at 03:15:19 PM EST
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Re: Ben Stein (none / 1)

Well, Ben Stein is technically an economist, given his bachelor's degree, but his primary academic strength was in law. He may be a comedian, but nobody becomes valedictorian of Yale Law without being astonishingly intelligent. Earning an bachelor's from Columbia ain't a walk in the park either, I'd guess.

That, and I have to confess to having been a big fan of Win Ben Stein's Money when I was younger.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Mon Feb 26th, 2007 at 12:39:46 AM EST
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Re: Ben Stein (none / 1)

His continuing defense of Nixon should tell people all they need to know about his inability to make policy jibe with economics. At least Friedman had the decency to denounce Nixonomics.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Mon Feb 26th, 2007 at 12:41:29 AM EST
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