Good morning, Chris.
At long last you've said something with which I can agree. I see political
parties as corporate entities, and as all such entities, they are out to sell
themselves and their products. I wouldn't deny that there are differences of
ideology and principal among them, but there are also differences within them
which cannot emerge because of the need to preserve and sell the party label.
Ed
----- Original Message -----
From: "Christoph Reuss" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, October 10, 2010 5:49 PM
Subject: Re: [Futurework] Not a very positive picture
> Hi Ed,
>
>> I'll see your Thatcher and raise you one. Here in Ontario, education being
>> a provincial matter, we had a former 'socialist' premier do a review of
>> post-secondary education. His recommendations were a deregulation of
>> tuitions and a replacement of grants with loans for students. We now have
>> students graduating with $40k+ debts into a severely depressed job market.
>
> Yes, unfortunately, so-called social-democrats today are about as neo-con
> as the Tories. Maybe you know the anagram of "PM Tony Blair":
> "I'm Tory Plan B." According to Thatcher's motto -- "TINA" --, the
> neo-cons give voters no real choice, but only various faces of basically
> the same program. In the U.S., it's called "Tweedledum / Tweedledee".
> Alas, this principle even applies to European "multi-party systems",
> where "social-democrats" are aggressively privatizing postal services,
> telecoms, public transportation, schools, hospitals, electricity, etc.
>
> Anyway, this doesn't change the statement about privatization of education.
>
> I think the whole deceptive party circus should be abolished, and politicians
> should only be elected as individuals with a clear individual program based
> on issues instead of deceptive party lines.
>
> Cheers,
> Chris
>
>
>
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