Never Trust a Used Car Program!
August 4, 2009
An interesting consequence of the government’s “cash for clunkers” program is the revelation – to those not already aware – of how the establishment is exploiting “climate change” – just as it had previously used the “Cold War” – to rationalize the looting of the public to serve corporate-state interests. Those who want to understand the realities of politics need only keep in mind the Watergate-era saying: “follow the money!”
Butler Shaffer was Professor Emeritus at Southwestern University School of Law. He is the author of In Restraint of Trade: The Business Campaign Against Competition, 1918–1938, Calculated Chaos: Institutional Threats to Peace and Human Survival, and Boundaries of Order. His latest book is The Wizards of Ozymandias.
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