| Subject: | Re: [socialcredit] Alaska dividend | | Date: | Tuesday, September 6, 2005 04:48:56 (-0700) | | From: | William B. Ryan <w_b_ryan @.....com>
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Keith, at the link, the only name you've associated
with "The Reading List of an Economic Radical" is John
H. Blackmore, as I can see.
http://www.comer.org/2005/2005a/ecrad.htm
Please explain the connection to Hinman.
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I have remarked regarding your article previously to
this list, on more than one occasion, I think.
Wasn't Blackmore the first federal Social Credit
leader from Alberta, holding that important office for
several years? The book collection he handed to you
contains not a single piece by Douglas; mostly it's
typical greenbacker/monetary reform stuff containing
the usual gibberish.
So here we have evidence that, from the very
beginning, there was paltry little Social Credit in
the Social Credit Party.
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The Alaska and Alberta programs were several years in
the making. By 1972 the Social Credit Party was out
of office; the program was inherited reluctantly by
the Party that defeated Social Credit. In Alaska the
idea was taken up by Republicans but with broad appeal
across the political spectrum. But in Alberta Social
Credit was discredited in the normal course of
politics.
The experience may demonstrate the downside of turning
what should be a broadly appealing social concept into
something identified specifically with a particular
political party, with all the baggage that entails.
The nineteenth century Populists were smarter than
that. Their plank of "free coinage of silver" was
adopted by significant caucuses of Democrats and
Republicans, and nearly carried the day.
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I've seen the anecdote about Manning, and it's
believable, knowing he was the fundamentalist that he
was. What evidence do we have he actually said it?
--- Keith Wilde <nschwartz@cogeco.ca> wrote:
Interesting. I thought I had seen mention of Hinman's
connection to the Alaska fund before, but I obviously
missed the exchange you have reproduced below, from
January.
So Hinman had more influence on Alaska legislators
than he did on his own colleagues in Alberta. Is that
because of a deeper degree of conviction on principle?
Was he less inclined than Manning, e.g., to believe
that a perpetual endowment was "too good for sinners",
as Wally has suggested recently?
Incidentally, it was Hinman who led me to the
literature I have listed and annotated as "The Reading
List of an Economic Radical", which is current at the
COMER site. I am a bit surprised that no one on this
list has commented on it.
Keith Wilde
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