On 02/21/2011 05:43 AM, dxAce wrote:


dave wrote:

On 02/21/2011 02:12 AM, Sébastien MEDARD wrote:
Hello,


The EU, and member governments ideology is more extreme than in the US....

Sebastien.

I doubt that. The only place more extreme than this Hell hole is Iran or
maybe that 'stan where they boil people in oil. We are fed propaganda
and jingoism all day long. We are offered the same mediocre product with
4 different labels and we think we have a choice. Help.

You need help packing for the move, clown 'tard?



"In principle, every American citizen has an equal say in our political
process. In practice, of course, some of us are more equal than others.
Billionaires can field armies of lobbyists; they can finance think tanks
that put the desired spin on policy issues; they can funnel cash to
politicians with sympathetic views (as the Koch brothers did in the case
of Mr. Walker). On paper, we’re a one-person-one-vote nation; in
reality, we’re more than a bit of an oligarchy, in which a handful of
wealthy people dominate.

Given this reality, it’s important to have institutions that can act as
counterweights to the power of big money. And unions are among the most
important of these institutions.

You don’t have to love unions, you don’t have to believe that their
policy positions are always right, to recognize that they’re among the
few influential players in our political system representing the
interests of middle- and working-class Americans, as opposed to the
wealthy. Indeed, if America has become more oligarchic and less
democratic over the last 30 years — which it has — that’s to an
important extent due to the decline of private-sector unions."
-nyt krugman yesterday