Posts Tagged ‘Roger Pielke’

Potemkin Nations

Friday, April 22nd, 2011

Potemkin Fruit Stand:

Within walking distance of my home, there is a grocery store that has entire cases full of each kind of fruit in this paltry display.
via Samizdata.

Potemkin Shopping Mall.
China’s Ghost Cities
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Go watch Roger Pielke Jr.’s eerie report of the huge shopping malls and cities China’s government is building by fiat, but which it cannot fill.

This is Obama’s dream world. This is the government controlled marketplace, and government mandated “infrastructure.”
via Samizdata, again.