Gore Vidal on the US election

[Brad De Long]

>>>[From today's Salon.  Full text at
>>>http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2000/09/20/vidal/print.html]
>>>
>>>"The great scandal today is we're still a militarized economy, 51
>>>percent of the budget goes for the Pentagon for procurement..."
>>
>>Does Gore Vidal know anything at all?
>>
>>Brad DeLong
>
>I'll tell you one thing, bucko.  I suspect Gore Vidal -- errors and 
>all -- will be read long after the complete writings of Brad DeLong 
>have turned to dust.
>
>Carl

That's true. That's why it's such a pity that he can't be bothered to 
spend even 1/10 of 1% as much time on the Budget of the United States 
as on his own royalty statements. If he did, he could actually be 
adding information rather than noise to American politics.

Brad DeLong
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