Powerful Poetry
8 June 2009
Editor, New York Post
Dear Editor:
George Will is understandably frightened by the administration's and Congress's massive infusion of politics into the operation of the U.S. auto industry - and he is understandably angered by these politicians' blatant lies about how they wish to keep politics out of the operation of this industry ("G.M.: That's 'Gov't Mandate' to you," June 8). Unfortunately, the "leaders" of this industry invited this cancerous intrusion by seeking handouts.
How sad it is that America has too few persons who really, deeply agree with the poet Shelley that
"The man
Of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.
Power, like a desolating pestilence,
Pollutes whate’er it touches."*
Sincerely,
Donald J. Boudreaux
Chairman, Department of Economics
George Mason University
* Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Queen Mab" (1813).
Editor, New York Post
Dear Editor:
George Will is understandably frightened by the administration's and Congress's massive infusion of politics into the operation of the U.S. auto industry - and he is understandably angered by these politicians' blatant lies about how they wish to keep politics out of the operation of this industry ("G.M.: That's 'Gov't Mandate' to you," June 8). Unfortunately, the "leaders" of this industry invited this cancerous intrusion by seeking handouts.
How sad it is that America has too few persons who really, deeply agree with the poet Shelley that
"The man
Of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.
Power, like a desolating pestilence,
Pollutes whate’er it touches."*
Sincerely,
Donald J. Boudreaux
Chairman, Department of Economics
George Mason University
* Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Queen Mab" (1813).
Posted by Don Boudreaux on
Sunday October 25, 2009 at 10:43am