To tell the truth

["John Gelles" <jjgelles@xxxxxxxx>]

	Pleased I was with the President.  For a while I had
	a vision of his prosecutor refusing to wind things up
	and allowing us to get on with it (see Glassman below),
	-- and Clinton firing him.

	This vision may not actually be realized -- but some-
	thing like it must.  Let Congress read the polls and
	impeach, if they will.  It's politics, after all, and nations
	run on it.  I will be counted on Clinton's side and hope
	fervently the Democrats win big in November.

	Lawyers define truth as mostly a matter of intent.
	Only an instant video replay (of events under
	dispute) can speak the truth.  What we ask of
	ourselves and other people is an intent not to
	deceive.

	Deception is a word we reserve for important
	matters.  The lines between important, trivial, and
	ridiculous are often fuzzy.  You cannot deceive
	the people of a nation except over important
	matters.  No prosecutor, judge or lawmaker can
	raise the trivial and ridiculous to level of important.

	To finish this line of reasoning, here is Glassman
	from the Washington Post and Slate.com.  After
	the WP/Slate squib is Krugman's URL to his piece
	in Fortune on Keynes.


The WP columnist James Glassman says the Lewinsky matter is
mostly just pseudo-events, and offers the following list of alternative
real issues citizens have a much greater need to know about:

   1) How serious is the Asian economic crisis?
   2) Have defense cuts made us vulnerable?
   3) How broad is the current prosperity?
   4) Why is crime falling?
   5) Why do some schools fail and others succeed?
   6) Why is there a federal surplus?
   7) How good and how widespread is health care?
   8) How is welfare reform working?

	The above list by Glassman is virtually all about
	economics.  Since I endorse his opinion whole-
	heartedly, I'm pleased with my interest in PKT.

	Krugman at the following URL about Keynes
	http://web.mit.edu/krugman/www/keynes.html
	offers some of the best and clearest prose (on
	my favorite subject) that I've ever read.  I shall
	stop automatically resisting the man when I read
	his next words.  He seems in this article to be far
	more Keynesian and correct than most on PKT!

	John Gelles