The Lou Dobbs of the left

Just as Lou Dobbs talks himself into believing that two people voluntarily trading with one another yields a net loss if they are both US citizens, various lefty types tie themselves into knots trying to convince themselves that destruction is good.

But, to be fair, we Bastiat fans tend to ignore what people are really referring to when talking about “helping the economy,” which is unemployment.  Economists rightly use wealth and GDP to measure the health of the economy.  The rest of the world uses unemployment.