Inviato da  Lestaat il 10/10/2008 14:23:12

Così, per caso, son caduto su sta notizia e incuriosito, ho cercato di sapere chi è questo Buffett
Sono arrivato subito a wikipedia ovviamente, ma poi, googlando un po' ne è venuta fuori una figura interessante.
Interessante soprattuto il padre Howard da cui sono arrivato anche a questa cosa curiosa con le relative canzoncine molto carine.
Questo mi ha colpito in particolar modo:
"Buffett is remembered for his highly libertarian stance, having maintained a friendship with Murray Rothbard for a number of years. A vocal critic of the Truman Doctrine and the Korean War, speaking on the floor of Congress, he said of military interventionism that,
Even if it were desirable, America is not strong enough to police the world by military force. If that attempt is made, the blessings of liberty will be replaced by coercion and tyranny at home. Our Christian ideals cannot be exported to other lands by dollars and guns.[2]
Although his son Warren Buffett has criticized investing in gold feeling that investing in businesses does more social good, his father, Howard Buffett, was a proponent of the Gold Standard."

Inviato da  Paxtibi il 10/10/2008 14:42:22

A parte il fatto che non si capisce perché mai un sostenitore del gold standard non possa allo stesso tempo investire – e direi con maggiore efficacia – nelle imprese, l'amicizia tra Rothbard e Buffet non mi pare una gran scoperta:

In our relation to the remainder of the American political scene, we of course recognized that the extreme right of the Republican Party was not made up of individualist anti-statists, but they were close enough to our position to make us feel part of a quasi-libertarian united front. Enough of our views were present among the extreme members of the Taft wing of the Republican Party (much more so than in Taft himself, who was among the most liberal of that wing), and in such organs as the Chicago Tribune, to make us feel quite comfortable with this kind of alliance.

What is more, the right-wing Republicans were major opponents of the Cold War. Valiantly, the extreme rightist Republicans, who were particularly strong in the House, battled conscription, NATO and the Truman Doctrine. Consider, for example, Omaha's Representative Howard Buffett, Senator Taft's midwestern campaign manager in 1952. He was one of the most extreme of the extremists, once described by The Nation as "an able young man whose ideas have tragically fossilized."

I came to know Buffett as a genuine and thoughtful libertarian. Attacking the Truman Doctrine on the floor of Congress, he declared: "Even if it were desirable, America is not strong enough to police the world by military force. If that attempt is made, the blessings of liberty will be replaced by coercion and tyranny at home. Our Christian ideals cannot be exported to other lands by dollars and guns."

When the Korean War came, almost the entire old left, with the exception of the Communist Party, surrendered to the global mystique of the United Nations and "collective security against aggression," and backed Truman's imperialist aggression in that war. Even Corliss Lamont backed the American stand in Korea. Only the extreme rightist Republicans continued to battle U.S. imperialism. It was the last great political outburst of the old right of my youth.

Howard Buffett was convinced that the United States was largely responsible for the eruption of conflict in Korea; for the rest of his life he tried unsuccessfully to get the Senate Armed Services Committee to declassify the testimony of CIA head Admiral Hillenkoeter, which Buffett told me established American responsibility for the Korean outbreak.
( Confessions of a Right-Wing Liberal)

Inviato da  Paxtibi il 10/10/2008 14:48:12

Comunque, se ti interessa Buffett (padre), che fu in effetti un bel personaggio, puoi leggere anche questo:

Howard Homan Buffett: Old Rightist Extraordinaire

Inviato da  Lestaat il 10/10/2008 15:16:09

LOL
Pax....
Ti giuro che non stavo insinuando nulla di quel che pensi.
Ho davvero trovato la notizia interessante e basta.
Se permetti vedere un'altra dinastia di potenti, che bazzicano sempre quei diamine di ambienti strani, sempre con una storia comune alle spalle....l'ho trovato interessante per quel SEBBENE che mette il figlio su di un binario un po' diverso da quello del padre, Rothbard è li perchè sta in mezzo alla citazione

Inviato da  Paxtibi il 10/10/2008 15:20:40

Veramente non pensavo che insinuassi niente...
Solo mi sembravi sorpreso di qualcosa ben poco sorprendente. Comunque il Buffett figlio è agli antipodi del padre, se non sbaglio è anche sostenitore del controllo della popolazione.