Say it Brother!

Free Trade held out a mutually convenient if idealized concordat: politics kept out of business, and business kept out of politics.

Please complete the PJ O\’Rourke quote: when legislators decide what can be bought and sold…..

6 thoughts on “Say it Brother!”

Dominic Allkins August 22, 2011 at 9:38 am

… the first thing to be bought will be the legislators.

Twas ever thus.

🙂
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Serf August 22, 2011 at 9:51 am

….and they are remarkably cheap given the the services they can provide….
Surreptitious Evil August 22, 2011 at 10:26 am

Being quite so economically ignorant, they have no ideal of their marginal value.
Martin August 23, 2011 at 12:14 am

“when legislators decide what can be bought and sold…..”

they shouldn’t be listening to the prat who wroite ‘The King of Sandusky, Ohio’
Martin August 23, 2011 at 12:15 am

Fuck me, I can post here again! Even although IE9 makes the left sidebar look the arse end of a Kraut’s salad!
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Martin August 25, 2011 at 12:29 am

That was quite a comment, wasn’t it?