Re: Chest puffing on Steel trade

["Charles Jannuzi" <jannuzi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > Laissez-faire went out with Newt.
> > If they wanted smaller government, why
> > would the Bushies exaggerate security threats
> > and allow increases for every blessed thing in
> > the military budget?
> >
> > Corporatism is the program now.
> >
> > mbs
> >
> =====================
>
> Laissez faire never existed and is an impossibility.
>
> Ian
>
>

I don't think Newt was ever that laissez-faire (though he did help pioneer
the Republicanization of the new economy). I think the term exists as a
great rhetorical tool for the powerful, monied and well-connected in the US
and the UK.

Charles Jannuzi