In case, you missed it this weekend, Ms. Feinberg, an "economics" professor at Rutgers, spotted Paul Ryan dining at a fancy restaurant with a couple pals who had bought an expensive bottle of wine.
Upon spotting this (she was only drinking an $80 bottle--liquid far beyond MY budget and quite extravagant for MY budget), she finished her dinner and sashayed on over to his table and nasty talked him, it being her place in the world to castigate anyone who she feels is behaving inappropriately.
Or, at the least, not to her expectations.
Byron York extends the conversation here at the Washington Examiner:
If the problem was not just the wine's cost, then what other factors were involved in Feinberg's anger? Was it because she thought Rep. Ryan was a hypocrite for drinking expensive wine while recommending reduced spending on Medicare and Medicaid? Was it because she believed Rep. Ryan was corrupt for drinking with two men she suspected were lobbyists? And finally, did Feinberg believe she behaved appropriately in the matter? Would it be appropriate for a conservative who felt strongly about, say, Rep. Nancy Pelosi, or Rep. Barney Frank, to do something similar to them under similar circumstances?
Feinberg's response was brief: "I'm sorry. I have no comment on this."Professor Jacobsen suggests Ms. Feinberg create a course called the "Mind Your Own Business" course. Great idea.
Instead of teaching a class at Rutgers called “Love and Money” about how students should handle their finances, you should create a class called “How To Mind Your Own Business 101,” and instead of teaching the class, you should take it …
because how other people spend their money is none of your business.
Update: I wonder how many families of four could live on the $80,000 donated to fund the Love and Money course, and for how long. I bet I know someone who could calculate that for us.What I want to know is how could this so-called progressive accept $80,000 from "the rich" guy who's funding her course? Does he get to determine what she is teaching? It was his idea, after all.
Apparently FEinberg doesn't believe in her benefactor's advice, found on his website:
“Financial success in a vacuum has no meaning,” he says. “You need to define what success means to you. You only go through this life once, so you might as well be the world’s best at whatever you choose to do in work and in life.”It'd be nice if Feinberg let Ryan and his friends determine what success means to them, eh?
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Being a good Keynesian, she should have read Mandeville's Fable of the Bees. Keynes cited it in his opus The General Theory. In essence when the colony of bees reforms its vice there is no money for the brewer, the candle maker, or all those who feed on consumption. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fable_of_the_Bees
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