[Pelham]

"We need a combination of supreme moral sensitivity and economic knowledge. Economically ignorant moralism is as objectionable as morally callous economism. Ethics and economics are two equally difficult subjects, and while the former needs discerning and expert reason, the latter cannot do without humane values."

The above was written by Wilhelm Roepke, the German economist who helped create the postwar German economic miracle. Roepke was a favorite of the old National Review, back when that magazine was worth reading.

The claim that a concern about business ethics is "socialistic" and "anti-capitalistic" would sure have been news to Russell Kirk, Eric von Kuehneldt-Leddihn, and any number of the conservative stalwarts who once wrote for National Review.

But that claim comes easily to the current crop of Republican stooges who are concerned solely about political power, and who absolutely don't want the business ethics of their boy Romney subjected to scrutiny.

[VinL]

Nice. -:)