Re: Big purple digit

In article <memo.20080417211319.1900C@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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 jgd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (John Dallman) wrote:

> In article <ddfr-D6A976.16560516042008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> ddfr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (David Friedman) wrote:
> 
> OK, money is not being created in that sense. 
> 
> > How would you find out that someone either worshipped the process of 
> > buying and selling--as opposed to seeing it as a useful process for 
> > serving human ends--or that he had contempt for the idea that anyone 
> > could have desires not measured in things bought or sold? Did the 
> > politician, for instance, express disinterest in whether his wife and 
> > children loved him? That would seem to follow from your account of 
> > his views.
> 
> I'm working from their total inability to explain their policies in any 
> terms except buying and selling, and complete floundering when asked how

> these policies would work for people who didn't have the money to buy.

None of which implies either that they worship the process of buying and 
selling or that they have contempt for the idea that anyone could have 
desires not measured in things bought or sold. It might indicate that 
they are bad at explaining their policies, or that you are bad at 
understanding their explanations, or both.
 
> For examples, William Hague, Peter Lilley and Michael Portillo during 
> the late eighties and early nineties. They try hard to present a much 
> warmer and more flexible face now.

I'm afraid I am insufficiently expert in British politics of the time to 
offer any opinion on the gentlemen in question.

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