Fwd: BOUNCE lbo-talk at lists.panix.com: Non-member submission from [Bradford DeLong <jbdelong at uclink.berkeley.edu>]

[Doug Henwood]

[since I have to forward, I get to respond in prepended fashion - 
yeah, I'm all for democratic politics - if only we had more of it in 
the USA - people didn't vote for an escalated war in 1964, but they 
got one anyway - more people voted for Gore than Bush, but we got 
Bush, thanks to a creakingly idiotic 18th century electora 
contraption - I didn't vote for someone who speaks nonsense like that 
in French, did I? - I like Big Macs, and I also suspect I'd like the 
Niman Ranch rib eye steak grilled over fig wood, with béarnaise sauce 
and pommes frites they're serving at Chez Panisse next Saturday]

Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 20:12:49 -0700
To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
From: Bradford DeLong <jbdelong at uclink.berkeley.edu>
Subject: Re: second wave attacks
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>   > It is a problem. But do you trust the very agents & institutions that
>>   had a large hand in creating the problem to solve it? We've got a
>>   principal (people like us who'd like to stay alive) / agent (the U.S.
>>   imperial state) issue here.
>>
>   > Doug

Ummm.... Solving this principal/agent problem is called "democratic
politics." If you don't like the thought of Paul Wolfowitz and
Elliott Abrams guiding American foreign policy, think that Al Gore
would not have appointed them.

Use your vote! Don't throw it away on somebody who wanders around
France saying: "Le remplacement de votre cuisine traditionnelle par
des nourritures standardisÈes de firmes multinationales ý haute
teneur en graisses et sucres est plus qu'un affront ý vos cultures,
c'est une arme de destruction massive".

"Les armes de destruction massive" are thermonuclear bombs,
widely-distributed powdered anthrax, and nerve gas--not McChicken
sandwiches...

Brad DeLong