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... everything. But is it really corruption if that's how it's supposed to work? Ideological naivety aside, wasn't it clear that this was exactly how those in power had envisioned it, statist and corporatist alike? Fatimah scaled the slight incline of a rustic wooden arch brdige that spanned the creek and caught her own koi-distorted reflection in the pool below. How did she fit into all of this? ...

Quotes, Economics Edition

...comments Seriously, what is up with having a seminar when you don't serve edible objects? -- Katharine, Pharyngula, comments I’m enraged that the poor always have to take it in the shorts when it’s the corporatist bastards who ought to be shivering in the goddamned cold. -- Candy, Sadly, No!, comments There was one time we threw a quarter keg of beer in the back seat with tap, put a parka on it...

Michael Pollan - Why Bother?

...etc will more or less just erase whatever gains we make in reducing our footprints. http://www.michaelpollan.com/article.php?id=92 It also goes into a large part why I garden, though doesn't quite have my anti-corporatist slant. Here is an excerpt: "But the act I want to talk about is growing some--even just a little--of your own food. Rip out your lawn, if you have one, and if you don't--if...

How to Lose an Election in 10 Easy Steps

... change in conventional wisdom and current courses of action, Democrats are going to spend the next two weeks or so losing this and upcoming elections in ten easy steps. 1.  Begin with a massive economic crisis.  Allow the Bush Administration to propose the first major plan--a plan so outrageous that "compromise" still involves insane giveaways to the corporatist Right. --MORE--

A new variety of capitalism?

So what the new, post-financial-crisis, American economic model is going to look like?  Some people suggest to replicate the French corporatist model, (ironically, it was considered as "backward" for a long time  by many US economists).  One of the possible scenarios on this "new"-old "Progressive Corporatism", "We’re entering an era of the educated establishment, in which government acts to ...

EAG Solicits Dick Morris

... economy and the efforts of anti-tax zealots like Olsen and his conservative cronies in the Michigan Republican Party who have seized on this economic crisis to ram through their radical, corporatist laissez-faire economic policy - the end goal of which is to eliminate all social programs and hand everything over to the private sector (including schooling; with charter schools and vouchers). "...

.... And that's only the beginning, as the result of this process has been an outright corporatist slow motion coup d'état . Not just a revolving door between the private sector and government...Klein is saying is that the implementation of ostensibly libertarian free-market policies ineluctably leads to a corporatist state—in the political science sense of the term, thank you—as a result of certain ...

Viagra: A Success Story for Rationing?

... characteristic: The courts have played a major role in shaping decisions. Germany's system is based on social insurance—that is, a network of sickness funds—and it has a corporatist style of governance. Within the broad framework set by the federal government, policy decisions are negotiated by the representatives of the medical profession and the sickness funds—the Bundesausschuss der Ärzte und ...

The Spirit of Liberty

... as the years of George W. Bush rolled by I became increasingly unhappy and downright angry about the government. The Wogs seemed to be a means of better separating myself from a reliance on a corporatist system I loathed, but the question plagued me over what kind of system I would prefer. I was raised in a house of democrats, who were big supporters of welfare, government provided healthcare, ...

Telecom Amnesty

...ranging communications surveillance. Ultimately, the movement hopes to halt the compromise bill, but in any event aims to politically punish Hoyer. This is part of the move for better (as opposed to corporatist) Democrats. Greenwald has been all over this issue, btw, and I cannot recommend him enough. In my view, there is no persuasive reason to grant the telecoms immunity from lawsuits. Telecoms...