[lbo-talk] LBO-talk Fundrace

[Carl Remick]

>From: Miles Jackson <cqmv at pdx.edu>
>
>On Sat, 17 Jul 2004, Carl Remick wrote:
>
> > The point is, Brad is not "somebody"; he's "Somebody."  He's one of 
>those
> > Council of Economic Advisers-caliber economists who are called on to
> > sanction national policy and, in times of austerity, tell the people to
> > "pull in their belts," etc.  This appeal is more seemly (at least) when 
>it
> > comes from cadaverous types like Alan Greenspan or Robert Rubin 
>(whatever
> > their myriad other limitations) and not porkers like DeLong or Larry
> > Lindsey.  Being in the public eye in such a capacity imposes some
> > responsibility for not being a symbolic hypocrite.
> >
> > Carl
>
>--Because, of course, the shape and size of one's body is
>completely a product of willpower and self-control.  (--Yet
>another example of the knee-jerk individualism that pervades
>capitalist societies.)
>
>Miles

Please, there is so much piety I take in one day.

Carl

I am the master of my weight, I am the captain of my waist.

                                          -- William Ernest Henley

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