Re: The Vacuity of the Hoover Institute

2000-07-27 Thread Jim Devine
I tried to read this until I got to the sentence asserting that "Predation, redistribution, and socialism are synonymous terms." This represents a classical Lockean view: property is _our_ (i.e., the capitalists') by the law of Nature and/or God, so that any redistribution (as under modern lib

Re: Re: Re: The Vacuity of the Hoover Institute

2000-07-27 Thread Michael Perelman
Herb was a Stanford engineer. It was his show. Jim Devine wrote: > At 06:20 AM 7/27/00 -0700, you wrote: > > >Just be grateful there isn't an Electrolux Institute. That one would > >really suck! > > is the Hoover Institute named after President Herbert Hoover, after the > inventor of the vacuum

Re: The Vacuity of the Hoover Institute

2000-07-27 Thread Michael Perelman
I did not read the piece, but I noticed that one of the 2 authors was one of the two people behind the flat tax. Michael Keaney wrote: > K > Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit > > Friends > > Before I briefly sign off, I thought you might want to check

Re: Re: The Vacuity of the Hoover Institute

2000-07-27 Thread Jim Devine
At 06:20 AM 7/27/00 -0700, you wrote: >Just be grateful there isn't an Electrolux Institute. That one would >really suck! is the Hoover Institute named after President Herbert Hoover, after the inventor of the vacuum cleaner (or at least one brand of such), or after J. Edgar Hoover (a.k.a., th

Re: The Vacuity of the Hoover Institute

2000-07-27 Thread Timework Web
Just be grateful there isn't an Electrolux Institute. That one would really suck! Temps Walker Sandwichman and Deconsultant

The Vacuity of the Hoover Institute

2000-07-27 Thread Michael Keaney
K Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Friends Before I briefly sign off, I thought you might want to check out the latest piece of sophistry from the IMF/Sachs apologists as regards current events in Russia. You can find it at http://www.russiaeconomy.or