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NorthernGent -> RE: Jamestown (5/4/2007 5:27:09 PM)
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ORIGINAL: meatcleaver
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ORIGINAL: NorthernGent
Out of interest, what is the alternative economic system?
You've got me there, lazy thinking! LOL I guess I meant anything that significantly degrades or curtails the financial and political power of those that hold power now through the puchase of politicians. And I think politicians are bought and seduced, they are on average too vain and intellectually weak to resist it.
I'm so out of practice with English I can't write a sentence without the need to correct myself.
MC, I wasn't trying to haul you over the coals, I was genuinely wondering what you had in mind.
Personally, I think thatcher bit off more than she could chew - she gave power to corporations and the media in return for unwavering support thinking that she could control them, but before she could turn 'round, they had totally swamped the government. Blair is bound by this system established by thatcher.
The economic system needs politicians to step out of the shadows and take control. Otherwise, it's a free for all where the likes of corporations run the show for their benefit. The trick is to elect politicians who believe they are accountable to society - easier said than done when a significant amount of the population have been seduced by consumerism.
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