Will Estonia Lead The Way?

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Ace of Spades:

 

 

June 06, 2012

Will Estonia Lead The Way? Little Estonia Was Devastated By the Downturn, But is Now Growing at 7.6%, Due to Three Things: "Austerity, Austerity, Austerity"

 

—Ace

 

I think it would behoove Mitt Romney to contrast Greece (Obama's model) with little Estonia (the conservative model).

@comradearthur made a good point: Scott Walker was only in office for two and a change years, rather than Obama's three and change years, but Scott Walker's reforms produced tangible, positive results in that time-frame, whereas Obama is still blibble-blabbing about "needing more time."

This is the acid test of politics: Do your policies correlate with positive results, or do they not? Theory and ideology and partisan rooting-interest are all well and good, but ultimately, do your policies actually produce the results you predict they will?

Scott Walker turned a $3.4 billion deficit into a $156 million surplus. Scott Walker's union reforms were praised as helpful by every school district that implemented them (and the reason that property taxes did not go up for the first time in a long time). Scott Walker's tax cuts and more business-friendly policies produced new job creation in a state that had had little of it during the downturn.

Those are results, not theory. The things he said would happen did, in fact, happen.

And Obama's promises?

 

Obama's predictions did not even come close to tracking with reality.

In science, you would look at the predictive ability of the two models, or theories, and decide that one seemed far more better-evidenced than the other.

Which brings us to Estonia.

Crisis? Estonia asks. What crisis? Read More

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President of Estonia rips Paul Krugman

byJoel Gehrke Commentary Staff Writer

 

President Toomas Hendrik Ilves of Estonia ripped The New York Times' Paul Krugman up one way and down the other in a series of tweets responding to a Krugman blog post about his country.

"Let's write about something we know nothing about & be smug, overbearing & patronizing: after all, they're just wogs," Ilves tweeted along with a link to Krugman's post. "Guess a Nobel in trade means you can pontificate on fiscal matters & declare my country a "wasteland". Must be a Princeton vs Columbia thing," Read More http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/president-estonia-rips-paul-krugman/585046