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Thatcher followed Reagan's lead. Their professed goal was to revitalize
industry, to give them more money to modernize and update machinery and then hire more workers with the added power of productivity and newfound corporate 'health'. But, instead they raped the factories, selling equity and property and trucks, etc. all off, spent the pension money, did this new 'lease back' or rental of machinery and trucks, received faster tax write offs on what they did buy, etc., cut pay to nothing to cover their 'moderninzation' as they spent their freed up cash on themselves and then pressed the government to encourage them through taxes, etc., to move operations offshore to slave states. There, I'm getting you started.
They took the government out of the 'responsible for everything but its own interest' business and left all people to fend for themselves. That Blade Runner look appeared in the newly abandoned population and they were made to feel responsible for their abandonment and predicament.
Gotta love a government that can sell that to the citizenry, survive in spite of their gross neglect and irresponsibility and get kudos from the professors of economics who began to develop new curriculum around these new modes of crass, capitalistic behavior.
They have even frightened our 'people's party' into distancing themselves from the people and siding with corporations, as it isn't a sexy issue to run on (criticizing, reining in and making responsible our corporations)and is denigrated as a whining, weak stance. I await a growth of disgust with both parties and hope that it brings some real people's leaders to the forefront, someone I can vote for and proudly place a bumpersticker on my car to support. Haven't found that fellow or woman as yet.
Silence is assent, we learn more each day.
posted by
benzinha
on December 29, 2004 at 1:11 PM
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You and I...
..are on the exact same page on this issue.
You've got it worse there tha we have here - so far. At least we offer health care to all, and have decriminalised cannabis, taking thousands of harmless (and often productive!) 'potheads' back out of the prison system.
But our homeless problem has been growing since the Thatcher years, and no one in gov't seems to give a flying whatsit.
Don't get me started...
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posted by
DamonLeigh
on December 29, 2004 at 2:39 AM
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ca88andra, I think that there may very well be leaders all over the place
within our borders, but the news media are wonderful about not pointing them out, not covering their activities, not writing nor reporting on their issues. They believe that we want to know about Brad Pitt and Brittany and JLo and the latest film released and the latest store gadget selling like hotcakes and another Pentagon report on Iraq.
Naming obscure heroes, naming the obscure working for decency leadership, and finding and reporting on quiet leaders quietly working hard at their chosen projects is not within the cool realm of 'spin'dom. Not sexy, not shown. Poverty ain't sexy and leaders fighting it ain't neither, as Huck Finn might say.
posted by
benzinha
on December 28, 2004 at 11:44 PM
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beachbelle, there are so many smoke screens inside these borders that
we can't see the forest for the trees and smokey fog. When Bush talks, smoke comes out of his mouth and it's not tobacco generated. Thanks for reading me again.
posted by
benzinha
on December 28, 2004 at 11:37 PM
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The world needs more Martin Luther Kings, but I don't think this generation or the next have been breeding grounds for the type of leadership and vision he was known and loved for.
posted by
Ca88andra
on December 28, 2004 at 4:21 PM
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Benzinha
I think you should spread the bitterness as far as possible. The foreign "threat" is used as a smokescreen. Take care
posted by
beachbelle
on December 28, 2004 at 12:20 PM
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