In These Times

Back in the day, the old Bell System (with over a million employees) was often called "the largest socialist state west of Eastern Europe." Therefore, not unlike it's former Iron Curtain cousins, "party" insiders (like CWA and its leadership) remain desperate to hold on to what they have and long for the good old days without the real inconvenience of free markets realities. Also similar to Eastern Europe, brilliant insider oligarchs, like SBC’s Ed Whitachre, have become fabulously wealthy "in these times" expanding his de facto monopoly while working a delusion of free market competition largely through buying the necessary government …

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