Comments on: Campaign Finance the Ebay Way http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/dowbrigade/2004/02/14/campaign-finance-the-ebay-way/ The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, But It Will Be Blogged Thu, 03 Dec 2009 10:51:12 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Tina Anderson http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/dowbrigade/2004/02/14/campaign-finance-the-ebay-way/comment-page-1/#comment-29584 Tina Anderson Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:56:11 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/dbnews/2004/02/14/campaign-finance-the-ebay-way/#comment-29584 What ever happened to individual responsibility and working for what you get, instead of just getting government handouts. Capitalism isn't broken, it's the bad attitudes of the American people that needs to be fixed! What ever happened to individual responsibility and working for what you get, instead of just getting government handouts. Capitalism isn’t broken, it’s the bad attitudes of the American people that needs to be fixed!

]]> By: JayT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/dowbrigade/2004/02/14/campaign-finance-the-ebay-way/comment-page-1/#comment-1712 JayT Sun, 15 Feb 2004 08:28:16 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/dbnews/2004/02/14/campaign-finance-the-ebay-way/#comment-1712 <a></a> "Congress is pretty much bought and sold," Vance said. "If you look at the funding sources you'll see why we don't have a utopia." I'm sorry, but this is made up, right? But that's VERY similar to something someone in my family said, who read a Boston Globe article (last summer) by Harvard Prof (summed up by her paraphrased as), "He asked the question 'If Capitalism is so good, then why isn't everybody rich?' And found, Kapitalism basically DOESN'T WORK!" I think the reason we have Fruit-o-pia (tm?) instead of Utopia is pretty obvious if you do the math correctly: There are people involved and people make mistakes (some more eXtreme than others) like thinking there actual IS such-a thing as a free lunch, as long as everybody gets one.

“Congress is pretty much bought and sold,” Vance said. “If you look at the funding sources you’ll see why we don’t have a utopia.”

I’m sorry, but this is made up, right?

But that’s VERY similar to something someone in my family said, who read a Boston Globe article (last summer) by Harvard Prof (summed up by her paraphrased as), “He asked the question ‘If Capitalism is so good, then why isn’t everybody rich?’ And found, Kapitalism basically DOESN’T WORK!”

I think the reason we have Fruit-o-pia (tm?) instead of Utopia is pretty obvious if you do the math correctly: There are people involved and people make mistakes (some more eXtreme than others) like thinking there actual IS such-a thing as a free lunch, as long as everybody gets one.

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