Demagogue

Eliot Spitzer that is. A demagogue is one who manipulates the emotions of the people with falsehoods in order to gain power.

Spitzer, who supplies no gas except the oral kind, is fining gas stations for the imaginary crime of “price-gouging.”

Had the stations raised their prices the day before the hurricane, that would have been legal. To do so in response to panic-buying by consumers is the crime.

Here’s my little essay on the myth of price-gouging.

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