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n The Nassau Institute for an evening lecture on Thursday, October 28, 2010 at 7:00pm at the British Colonial Hilton in Downtown Nassau.
Professor Bruce Yandle will discuss "Deficits, regulation, welfare reform. Why is the government habit so difficult to break? Is it special interests? Just any special interests"?" in a presentation entitled, Bootleggers, Baptists and the Government Habit.
Your $75 donation will cover a three course meal (Roast Tomato & Crab Bisque – Pan Fried Mahi-Mahi with Leek & Pepper Ragout, Parsley Mashed Potatoes with a Fresh Island Vegetable Medley – Bourbon Street Pecan Pie with coffee or tea. There will be a cash bar for your convenience.
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Sponsors include: CBS Bahamas, Custom Computers Ltd, and NMC Leasing.
Dr. Bruce Yandle is Dean Emeritus of Clemson University’s College of Business & Behavioral Science where he was a faculty member for 33 years. A past member and chairman of South Carolina’s State Board of Economic Advisors, he is a Senior Fellow with Clemson’s Strom Thurmond Institute and Adjunct Distinguished Professor of Economics at George Mason University’s Mercatus Center in Arlington, VA. Recipient of South Carolina’s Order of the Palmetto, Dr. Yandle is author/editor of 16 books and has taught economics in graduate programs in France, Germany, Italy, and Czech Republic.
He was a senior economist on White House staff during the Ford and Carter Administrations and Executive Director of the Federal Trade Commission in the Reagan Administration. A frequent contributor to The Freeman and Regulation magazine, Dr. Yandle served as president of the Association of Private Enterprise Education, trustee of the Foundation for Economic Education, and as a trustee and board chairman with Spartanburg Methodist College. He writes a quarterly newsletter on the economy distributed by Clemson’s Thurmond Institute. Prior to entering a career in university teaching, Dr. Yandle was in the industrial machinery business for 15 years.
Sadly, I will not be able to attend this lecture; however I sincerely hope that many stones are turned over.
A discussion involving the involvement on Lady Bird Johnson in military merchandise, or the Duponts perhaps. Not to mention the Symonette and Kennedy families with bootlegging during it’s heyday. The Maynard family with it’s 10% policy during the early days of the former dictatorship of the Bahamas, as well as many other prominent Bahamian families.
The involvement of all churches and the influence they wielded and still wield today.
Many parallels can be drawn between both countries, as well as connections to both including Canada.
Of course, one would be remiss if the involvement of the BNT was not mentioned in regard to it’s tacit involvement with developing areas of the Exuma land and sea park, Sandy Port and numerous other areas that benefited certain families such as the Claridges and Bethels amongst others as long as certain government ministers got their due.
The list goes on to include individuals from our respective unions that insured only those companies they approved through back scratching would keep their lively hoods; but I digress, and will leave the rest for those with an inclination to do so to address.
Special interest within all government’s and “private” agencies and their representatives is the norm.