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[rwac]

• An American major after the destruction of the Vietnamese Village Ben Tre: "It became necessary to destroy the village in order to save it."
• Vice President Joe Biden: "We Have to Go Spend Money to Keep From Going Bankrupt."
• President George W. Bush: "I've abandoned free-market principles to save the free-market system."(For a discussion please see The Most Redeeming Feature of Capitalism is Failure)
• Nancy Pelosi said "We have to pass the health care bill to see what's in it." (YouTube Video)
• Larry Summers says "The central irony of financial crisis is that while it is caused by too much confidence, too much borrowing and lending and too much spending, it can only be resolved with more confidence, more borrowing and lending, and more spending." (Reuters)

From: http://globaleconomi...oy-germany.html

[niner]

Larry Summers says "The central irony of financial crisis is that while it is caused by too much confidence, too much borrowing and lending and too much spending, it can only be resolved with more confidence, more borrowing and lending, and more spending." (Reuters)

This isn't Orwellian, it's ironic. And true. It sounds like it doesn't make sense because he's deliberately making it sound nonsensical to point out the irony. If he explained it clearly, a lot of people's eyes would glaze over.