Sedition

Declan McCullagh declan at well.com
Wed Nov 14 06:28:50 PST 2001


Yep, hundreds. Cato has a staff of about 100 alone. IHS/Mercatus probably
close to the same. CEI and IJ are smaller.

But DC is a big town, and a few hundred people (many of whom are support
staff and not "analysts") are vastly outnumbered by the bureaucratelia.

-Declan


On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 06:45:09AM -0500, Duncan Frissell wrote:
> At 05:13 PM 11/13/01 -0500, Declan McCullagh wrote:
> >On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 02:20:28PM -0500, Faustine wrote:
> > > It sure is. That's why I think (and have always openly said, here and
> > > everywhere) we need more pro-freedom policy analysts in Washington.
> >
> >Of course, if you're a hardcore libertarian ("abolish all
> >unconstitutional federal agencies, and that's most of 'em! let's
> >revert back to the firearms laws we had 150 years ago!"), then you
> >don't get listened to.
> >
> >Having more "pro freedom policy analysts" in Washington won't
> >accomplish much until other things change too.
> >
> >-Declan
> 
> Anyway, don't we have dozens (hundreds?) of pro-freedom policy analysts in 
> DC.  Between CATO and all the rest.  Haven't the commies been complaining 
> about our massive numbers "funded by the corporations".
> 
> DCF





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