>****
>I'm sorry that Kotlikoff and Burns were so miffed by my review that they
>felt compelled to attack my motives rather than deal with the substance
>of what I said. Maybe that's why they think that I did the same
>thing—that I accused them of "hawking" Social Security privatization,
>when no such accusation appears in my article.****
>(New York Review of Books, April 7, 2005, p. 85 -- Reply to Kotlikoff &
>Burns.)
>
>This is precisely the point I and others (particularly Miles) made in a
>recent thread on lbo-talk.
>
>Focusing on motive is almost always a deliberate attempt to avoid the
>actual subject matter at issue. It is intellectually and politically
>unethical -- besides being simply stupid.
It's lovely when you sound just like a bourgeois economist & Democrat!
Doug