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# Tuesday Miscellany
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/6773/
- Published: 2008-11-25T11:12:04.000Z
- Updated: 2008-11-25T11:12:04.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: TWE, #wpChunk

![streetsign.jpg](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ea/fd/eafdb338-c9b6-4f87-8363-78ab94cc3a18/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/streetsign.jpg)

The holidays approach. Not much time for blogging, and not much bloggable information out there. Personal responsibility took another step back: [Canada ruled that fat people must get a free extra plane ticket](http://www.canada.com/theprovince/story.html?id=977633&ref=thedailyeudemon.com) and [Citibank got more money](http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/11/24/business/norris.php?ref=thedailyeudemon.com). I can live with the fat person decision, but [I'm not sure I can live with the Citibank one](http://www.merkfund.com/merk-perspective/insights/2008-11-19.html?ref=thedailyeudemon.com). I noticed that the President-elect said we're in an "historic" economic crisis. He might be taking a lead from FDR's playbook: [Make things sound even grimmer than they are, so everyone gives you a free hand to do whatever you want](http://www.lewrockwell.com/decoster/decoster39.html?ref=thedailyeudemon.com) (I read *Crisis and Leviathan*\--the book referenced in the link--and Higgs presents facts and citations to back up everything he says; it was published by Oxford University Press). With a little luck, Obama will be able to saddle America with programs for the next 100 years, just like FDR did with social security.