Pols Were, At Least, More Frank Back Then
28 August 2006
Editor, The Washington Post
1150 15th St., NW
Washington, DC 20071
Dear Editor:
Sebastian Mallaby rightly takes to task the likes of Evan Bayh, Joe, Biden, and Joe Lieberman who are now denouncing Wal-Mart ("Shopping for Support Down the Wrong Aisle," August 28). Alas, America is marred by a long and disgraceful history of these staged fulminations against successful retailers. That consummate demagogue Huey Long affirmed that he would "rather have thieves and gangsters than chain stores in Louisiana." (Long was, at least, loyal to his genre.) And Rep. Wright Patman, displaying more frankness than do his modern-day successors, declared that "there is no place for chain stores in the American system."
Sincerely,
Donald J. Boudreaux
Chairman, Department of Economics
George Mason University
Editor, The Washington Post
1150 15th St., NW
Washington, DC 20071
Dear Editor:
Sebastian Mallaby rightly takes to task the likes of Evan Bayh, Joe, Biden, and Joe Lieberman who are now denouncing Wal-Mart ("Shopping for Support Down the Wrong Aisle," August 28). Alas, America is marred by a long and disgraceful history of these staged fulminations against successful retailers. That consummate demagogue Huey Long affirmed that he would "rather have thieves and gangsters than chain stores in Louisiana." (Long was, at least, loyal to his genre.) And Rep. Wright Patman, displaying more frankness than do his modern-day successors, declared that "there is no place for chain stores in the American system."
Sincerely,
Donald J. Boudreaux
Chairman, Department of Economics
George Mason University
Posted by Don Boudreaux on
Monday May 14, 2007 at 6:23pm