Posted on 10/14/2009 2:55:12 PM PDT by arthurus
THE LOBBIES OF Congress are crowded with representatives of the X industry. The X industry is sick. The X industry is dying. It must be saved. It can be saved only by a tariff, by higher prices, or by a subsidy. If it is allowed to die, workers will be thrown on the streets. Their landlords, grocers, butchers, clothing stores and local motion pictures will lose business, and depression will spread in ever-widening circles. But if the X industry, by prompt action of Congress, is saved—ah then! It will buy equipment from other industries; more men will be employed; they will give more business to the butchers, bakers and neon-light makers, and then it is prosperity that will spread in ever-widening circles.
It is obvious that this is merely a generalized form of the case we have just been considering. There the X industry was agriculture. But there is an endless number of X industries.
(Excerpt) Read more at jim.com ...
I can see where the industry could take a pounding when there are Democrats in Congress - I mean how can a video compete with a Page?
we're talking "widgets" not "digits".
this is Not a problem. Porn always sells
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