On Jan 3, 2009, at 7:55 AM, James Heartfield wrote:
> Is it to bank-roll these failing, NY-based banks. Surely it would be
> much better to let them go to the wall.
Do you think that letting them "go to the wall" would have no effect on the real economy?
> Doug was very critical of the purportedly over-subsidised denizens
> of Alaska. So why subsidise New York?
Was it all those years in Trotskyist party politics that taught you to distort people's arguments? I have no problem with subsidies on principle. I can't stand it when people collect big federal subsidies and then go on about self-reliance and the evils of big gummint - which is exactly the case with the U.S. south and mountain west. They take the cash from the "blue" states and then vote Republican. This is an irrefutable fact, not a matter of opinion.
Doug