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Maureen Dowd Wants Soviet-Style Show Trials with Capitalist Defendants in Shackles
George Reisman's Blog on Economics, Politics, Society, and Culture ^
| February 7, 2009
| George Reisman
Posted on 02/19/2009 8:57:51 PM PST by GoodDay
Our mixed economy rests on the effective discarding of the United States Constitution, which placed severe limits on government power and thus stood as a bulwark in defense of an economic system that was almost one of laissez-faire. The Constitutional protections were discarded by a process of pretending that the Constitution could somehow grow or evolve, which actually meant nothing other than choosing to ignore it.
...The present symbolism depicting the relationship between the government and the citizen is that the head of the government, the President of the United States, has at his disposal, with no objection from anyone, Air Force One, which is a Boeing 747 jet plane that costs hundreds of millions of dollars and, when configured for commercial operation, carries more than 450 passengers. At the same time, howls of anger and fury go up when one of the largest private corporations in the country dares to order a 12-seat jet plane for $50 million...
(Excerpt) Read more at georgereisman.com ...
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: capitalism; interventionism; mixedeconomy
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Economist George Reisman (Pepperdine University) blogs on the bailout, the commercial bankers, and the million-dollar redecorating of an executive's office.
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posted on
02/19/2009 8:57:51 PM PST
by
GoodDay
To: GoodDay
Sure she does—that is, everyone but raines, goerlick, dodd, and most of the obama cabinet.
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posted on
02/19/2009 8:59:32 PM PST
by
freeangel
( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like what you say))
To: GoodDay
Cap Maureen Dowd’s salary.. $30,000. is enough for what she does.
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posted on
02/19/2009 9:00:10 PM PST
by
woofie
To: GoodDay
Welcome to the club Maureen.
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posted on
02/19/2009 9:01:24 PM PST
by
jiggyboy
(Ten per cent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
To: GoodDay
of course she does. but then again, she is an idiot
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posted on
02/19/2009 9:01:45 PM PST
by
GeronL
(Hey, won't you be my Face Book friend??)
To: GoodDay
Maureen Down in shackles.
Kinda kinky!
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posted on
02/19/2009 9:01:57 PM PST
by
George Smiley
(They're not drinking the Kool-Aid any more. Now they're eating it straight out of the packet.)
To: woofie
You are far too generous to Ms. Dowd
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posted on
02/19/2009 9:02:05 PM PST
by
txnativegop
(God Bless America! (NRA-Endowment))
To: GoodDay
the rule...you forgot the rule:
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posted on
02/19/2009 9:03:04 PM PST
by
ari-freedom
(Hail to the Dork!)
To: GoodDay
Calling my first witnesses: Barney Frank and Chris Dodd. Hey Mo, the legal discovery process is like fighting CTJ. You lose. ROFL
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posted on
02/19/2009 9:03:08 PM PST
by
VRWC For Truth
(Throw the bums out who vote yes on the bail out)
To: GoodDay
I've heard that a persons eyes are the windows to their soul.
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posted on
02/19/2009 9:03:19 PM PST
by
VR-21
("If it's a vision of the future you want...")
To: woofie
Two bits might be more like it.
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posted on
02/19/2009 9:03:21 PM PST
by
FlingWingFlyer
(The media lied, America died !)
To: woofie
Heck, make it less than that. She’s like a broken record. She must be eternally going through menopause or something. It’s a wonder any paper still carries her columns.
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posted on
02/19/2009 9:03:47 PM PST
by
dr_who
To: woofie
$30,000. is enough for what she does.
$30k
That's pretty steep for a low end prostitute.
To: VR-21
At least Goebbels had a brain.
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posted on
02/19/2009 9:07:26 PM PST
by
PzLdr
("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
To: dr_who
“She must be eternally going through menopause or something. Its a wonder any paper still carries her columns.”
So we might say that Dowd both writes for a rag, and is on the rag.
(Sorry. That really was in bad taste.)
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posted on
02/19/2009 9:08:15 PM PST
by
GoodDay
(Palin for POTUS 2012)
To: GoodDay
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posted on
02/19/2009 9:09:31 PM PST
by
GOP Poet
To: GoodDay
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posted on
02/19/2009 9:10:42 PM PST
by
PGalt
To: PzLdr
"At least Goebbels had a brain."And a nicer personality too I suspect.
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posted on
02/19/2009 9:10:45 PM PST
by
VR-21
("If it's a vision of the future you want...")
To: George Smiley
Not kinky enough...
Think “ball gag”
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posted on
02/19/2009 9:12:44 PM PST
by
bigbob
(-)
To: GoodDay
How about a witch trial...with Maureen Dowd in shackles?
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