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[Bryan Caplan]

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                        Prof. Bryan Caplan                
       Department of Economics      George Mason University
        http://www.bcaplan.com      [EMAIL PROTECTED]

  "He wrote a letter, but did not post it because he felt that no one 
   would have understood what he wanted to say, and besides it was not 
   necessary that anyone but himself should understand it."     
                   Leo Tolstoy, *The Cossacks*

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Bryan:   I liked this column.  You might want to post it on your humor page.   Paul   Paul H. Rubin Department of Economics and School of Law Emory University Atlanta, GA  30322-2240 Voice: 404-727-6365      Fax 630-604-9609 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.emory.edu/COLLEGE/ECON/Rubi.htm Darwinian Politics: The Evolutionary Origin of Freedom, Rutgers Series in Human Evolution, Rutgers University Press, 2002 http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0813530962/qid=1023721671/sr=12-11/002-4193036-2531267 -----Original Message----- From: Borowitzreport.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 8:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: SLOGAN SHORTAGE SHOCKER   August 16, 2002 Breaking News NATION FACING SHORTAGE OF ECONOMIC SLOGANS America’s Slogan Reserves Nearly Depleted, White House Warns America’s supply of meaningless economic slogans, such as “Corporate Responsibility” and “Small Investors Retirement Security,” has been drained almost dry in the past few weeks as President Bush made a series of banal speeches in the hopes of talking up the flagging economy. That is the message from senior White House aides, who say that America’s slogan reserves were taxed to the breaking point this week at the President’s Economic Forum at Baylor University. “People seem to think that meaningless economic slogans are a renewable resource,” one Bush aide said. “That is simply not the case.” As the stock markets went into a free-fall this summer, President Bush was forced to make a series of meaningless cheerleading speeches in front of slogan-bedecked backgrounds, a decision that may have triggered the nation’s current slogan shortage. Senior aides have been scrambling to develop new slogans, but much of their handiwork is instantly consigned to the dustbin, such as the recently rejected idea of President Bush delivering a speech in front of the slogan, “Will Work For Food.” “We had high hopes for that one, but the focus groups hated it,” one aide said. For his part, President Bush acknowledged the slogan shortage in a speech last night in Austin, where he spoke in front of a background adorned with the words, “Seeking New Sources of Slogans.” “Coming up with a plan for an economic recovery will be hard,” Mr. Bush told his audience. “Coming up with a name for that plan will be even harder.” The Borowitz Report Waste Someone's Time: Forward to a Friend. To unsubscribe to this e-mail list click here

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