Free Trade held out a mutually convenient if idealized concordat: politics kept out of business, and business kept out of politics.
Please complete the PJ O’Rourke quote: when legislators decide what can be bought and sold…..
Say it Brother!
August 22nd, 2011 · 6 Comments
Tags: Trade
6 responses so far ↓
1 Dominic Allkins // Aug 22, 2011 at 9:38 am
… the first thing to be bought will be the legislators.
Twas ever thus.
2 Serf // Aug 22, 2011 at 9:51 am
….and they are remarkably cheap given the the services they can provide….
3 Surreptitious Evil // Aug 22, 2011 at 10:26 am
Being quite so economically ignorant, they have no ideal of their marginal value.
4 Martin // Aug 23, 2011 at 12:14 am
“when legislators decide what can be bought and sold…..”
they shouldn’t be listening to the prat who wroite ‘The King of Sandusky, Ohio’
5 Martin // Aug 23, 2011 at 12:15 am
Fuck me, I can post here again! Even although IE9 makes the left sidebar look the arse end of a Kraut’s salad!
6 Martin // Aug 25, 2011 at 12:29 am
That was quite a comment, wasn’t it?
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