Reply #19: A trip down memory lane k*r

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Ketchup as a vegetable, David Stockman brought that bone to Ronnie.

"As Ronald Reagan's first Budget Director, Stockman helped produce the huge deficits that followed Reagan's election on the promise of a balanced budget. Then Stockman ratted out his colleagues in a magazine interview and in his book (it seems they had made no serious attempt to cut spending) and moved to Wall Street, where he quietly got very rich and sank from history.

Stockman Rises Again

End of story? Not quite. Turns out, Stockman may have time for that prison course in remedial economics after all. He was indicted a short time ago for securities fraud at an auto-parts manufacturer that he controlled." Time Magazine http://tinyurl.com/lkdh2u

The case was dropped in 1/2009 but the point had been made. The guy was not only a liar but a shifty businessman.

Great post! Speeches from the Dead is a good concept.