Great article David! I'm up here in Canada where deficit terrorism has been the norm since the mid 80s. Hot buttons, once made and disseminated, are so hard to destroy. Even with the debunking of the neoliberals' cant on this subject, via books and numerous commentaries by numerous people, the press is still full of dire warnings about deficits. But you will also find plenty of plain talk about the need for deficits sometimes! The Right is, indeed, shameless. There's not much we can do. Here in my neck of the woods, Whenever I'm in the second hand bookshop, I have …
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I’m sort of unhappy that I was born. And angry. I hate this godless, frightening world. But I’m normal - I hope. I do have a great capacity for happiness and I like fun. At every opportunity, I try to have fun and try to be happy. I’ll never (in this world) completely succeed, but I’ll always make that effort.
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Well, We are having a federal election here in Canada too, just because Stephen Harper (who, in dropping the writ, violates his own, new law about fixed election dates) thinks now's the time for him to act in order to secure a majority Conservative government. Listening to Eilzabeth May, the Green Party leader in an interview on TVOntario, I heard her complain about Americans, especially Nader supporters, who exclaimed: 'Gore or Bush, What was the difference?' I expect that from the Green Party leader. Her delivery was certainly dramatic. My thought was there is no difference, since there's no difference between …
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You have to love special interests. The planet is burning, people are starving, capitalists are sucking the life out of everything, and the special (capitalist) interests just shrug and continue on with business. In this case, agrobusiness.
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Smart cookie, that Chinese student. I wish more Chinese citizens were as skeptical as he is. Correct me if 'we' are wrong, but Wasn't Nancy Pelosi instrumental in ensuring that funding for George W. Bush's criminal (in my view) war enterprise in Iraq continue uninterrupted - 'after' she made noises suggesting that she would do what she could to thwart the warmonger? My understanding is that defunding the 'war', which came to be within the power of resurgent Democrats, was a way for them to stop Bush et al in their tracks and that Pelosi and others had that in mind, …
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Interesting comments above. I read enough articles on this subject not long ago, as did many of us of course. Did Bush win the election or not? I agree totally that private companies should not be involved in the voting process. And any reasonable person who has looked at the companies involved and their histories will be appropriately mortified that they are. I'm actually more familiar with the American system in that regard than I am with my own Canadian system. Although I'm sure that the same companies operate here. It does seem a shame, however, that we can't use modern …
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