No Silk for Making Purses, Either

by Don Boudreaux on September 11, 2008

My friend Ron Souers, via a personal e-mail to me, asks a momentous question: "Since it has become
apparent that this election boils down to one all-important issue (How
to apply makeup to a farm animal), I have one question: If you remove
the makeup from a politician, is he/she still a pig?"