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From: tdh@frog.UUCP (T. Dave Hudson)
Newsgroups: net.politics.theory
Subject: separation of economy and state
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Date: Mon, 17-Feb-86 15:20:08 EST
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> Where economic matters are concerned, the relationships between crucial
> economic institutions -- the federal executive, the Federal Reserve, major
> corporations -- seem to me incredibly bureaucratic and insulated by
> law and convention from any popular recall or revision.  The supposed
> need for a separation of economic management from politics has always
> seemed to me an excuse to keep voters uninformed and infantile where
> US national economic issues are concerned.

You object to the separation of economy and state, and yet
your objection is expressed with an example in which economy
has most disastrously not been separated from state.  What
makes you think that anything other than the abolition of
the Federal Reserve, etc., would help?  Surely you don't
claim that things would improve if people chose to keep the
Federal Reserve but run it from the polls.

				David Hudson