[marketcorrection] Don Boudreaux: Yet Another Overrated Politician

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Posted by Don Boudreaux:
Yet Another Overrated Politician
http://marketcorrection.powerblogs.com/posts/1174905354.shtml


   12 June 2006
   Editor, The Washington Times
   Dear Editor:
   H. Alan Young wants a memorial in Washington to honor Harry Truman
   (Letters, June 12). Authorizing the dropping of two atomic bombs that
   killed hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians is reason enough
   not to honor Truman with a monument, but too many of Truman's other
   lesser deeds are unworthy as well - such as his seizure of American
   steel factories during the Korean War and his effort to extend FDR's
   New Deal by creating a system of national health insurance.
   Sincerely,
   Donald J. Boudreaux
   Chairman, Department of Economics
   George Mason University