Seattle (for Brad De Long)

[Dhlazare at aol.com]

In a message dated 12/1/99 11:32:19 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
cgrimes at tsoft.com writes:

<< 

 Andrew Jackson's veto of the Bank Bill, July 10, 1832.

 

 Not exactly my idea of an economic radical, and yet how far we have

 fallen from even Jackson's dismal tenets.

 

  >>
How any leftist can approvingly quote a racist demagogue like Andrew Jackson 
is beyond me.  Jackson's anti-capitalism was entirely from the right, i.e. in 
defense of landed Southern interests.

Dan Lazare