NP Stimulate this

[Paul Mackin]

Reminds me of back during WWII when it was said to be the patriotic duty of
young women to have sex with the boys being sent to the front. It was just
bantering talk and essentially a joke. Then as now the granting of sexual
favors--just as is the buying of goods and services--was based not on
patriotism but upon desire and having the wherewithall to act upon that
desire.

America's is not a command economy. The so called incentive package is
intended to provide the wherewithall.

Has any p-lister or government official seriously suggested otherwise? If so
I will write them an admonitory letter or post  about the glories of the
free enterprise system. :-)

             P.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Monroe" <davidmmonroe at yahoo.com>
To: "Terrance" <lycidas2 at earthlink.net>; <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2001 2:15 AM
Subject: Re: NP Stimulate this


> Notice, though, that it's "our" patriotic duty to
> stimulate the economy by going shopping, rather than
> "Their" patriotic duty to keep the possibilty of our
> going shopping open by not laying of myriad workers
> not only in response to post-September 11th losses,
> not even only in order to keep appeasing a select few
> (i.e., major stockholders) who, while They might well
> indeed shop more, er, "dutifully," if not necessarily
> more "patriotically" (tending, as They do, to not
> necessarily Buy American, tastes running to Imported
> Varieties), than any of us do, but also perhaps (a
> "perhaps" tending towards the "not altogether
> unlikely") in order to take advantage of the Situation
> as a cover for preexisting problems and ongoing greed.
>  Difficult to go blithely to market when you've been
> laid off  ...
>
> --- Terrance <lycidas2 at earthlink.net> wrote:
> > Of course, the best way to stimulate the economy is
> > get people to go shopping.
>
>
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