Oswald Spengler has this to say in his chapter on Money in The Decline of the West.
Quote:But the genuine prince and statesman wants to rule, and the genuine merchant only wants to be wealthy, and here the aquisitive economy divides to pursue aim and means seperately. * One may aim at booty for the sake of power, or at power for the sake of booty.
* There's a footnote-
Quote: As a means for governments it is called finance-economy (financial policy). Here the whole nation is the object of a levy of tribute, in the forms of taxes and customs, of which the purpose is not to make, so to say, the upkeep of its life more comfortable, but to secure its historical position and to enhance its power.
"I will do my utmost" is hardly associated with making life more comfortable. It sounds more like noses to the grindstone on a bowl of rice a day to me.
I think Mac might have got carried away by the rhetoric and the heat of the moment as the pensioners use their voting clout to grind the faces of the workers.
[/quote]missing Tony already Spend?[/quote]
He was nearly as bad. A "straight kinda guy" my arse. I miss John Major.
Like Bob Dylan said in Nettie Moore, a beautiful, timeless folksong for Modern Times-
"Something's out of whack".
