“these guys are not good for business.”

What a telling quote.

If I remember my history right, Parliament in Mussolini's Italy was made up not of representatives of the people, but of representatives of the various guilds or industries. What did Calvin Coolidge say? Something like "the business of America is business." Of course in our system, the industries have lobbyists to bribe (no other word here for it) the people's representatives into betraying their constituents in the industry's interest, which is a little different from fascist Italy where the lobbyists WERE the members of parliament, but it seems to me that the line is getting thin indeed...

Posted at February 28, 2008 12:21 PM in response to Today's Must Read