The Big Bailout: America as a Full-Spectrum Kleptocracy
by William Norman Grigg
by William Norman Grigg
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Its name somewhat anachronistically means "assembly of old men."
George Washington famously – and, it must now be admitted, with
excessive optimism – characterized it as an institutional saucer
intended to cool legislation passed in the intemperate heat of the
moment. Its members demand, with entirely unwarranted self-approval,
to be called, collectively, the World's Greatest Deliberative Body.
