The Coffee Party Facebook is all abuzz about Gov. Dayton's promised veto action. See http://news.coffeepartyusa.com/p/1247743475/minnesota-gov-calls-out-corporate-front-group-alec-vetoes-its-bills.
I sent Gov. Dayton a thank you at http://mn.gov/governor/contact-us/form/.
Thanks for vetoing ALEC's bills.
Those who cite Adam Smith's "invisible hand" often ignore the rest of his cogent observations, including:
"It is by this superior knowledge of [the merchants and manufacturers] own interest that they have frequently imposed upon [the country gentleman's, often a member of Parliament] generosity, and persuaded him to give up both his own interest and that of the public, from a very simple but honest conviction, that their interest, and not his, was the interest of the public."
From "Political manipulation - begging the question"
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I posted the above on Facebook as well as the next:
Cookbooks in German are Kochbücher. Does this mean that legislators who enact ALEC drafts are Koching by the book?
