Looking for Liberty in All the Wrong Places
9 November 2006
Editor, The New York Post
To the Editor:
Re "W Hears the Voters" (Nov. 9):
Within hours of the GOP's 1994 takeover of the House and Senate, then-Senator Phil Gramm (R-TX) proclaimed the lesson of that election to have been "about freedom."
Turns out that, especially since 2000, it was more about power and pork.
Those of us who fear concentrated power should look not to a political party to protect our liberties but, rather, to divided government and glorious gridlock.
Sincerely,
Donald J. Boudreaux
Chairman, Department of Economics
George Mason University
Editor, The New York Post
To the Editor:
Re "W Hears the Voters" (Nov. 9):
Within hours of the GOP's 1994 takeover of the House and Senate, then-Senator Phil Gramm (R-TX) proclaimed the lesson of that election to have been "about freedom."
Turns out that, especially since 2000, it was more about power and pork.
Those of us who fear concentrated power should look not to a political party to protect our liberties but, rather, to divided government and glorious gridlock.
Sincerely,
Donald J. Boudreaux
Chairman, Department of Economics
George Mason University
Posted by Don Boudreaux on
Friday June 22, 2007 at 11:48am