me:
>> FWIW, a friend of mine from Iran suggests that the Ahmadinejad
>> government's giving of direct payments to peasants and other poor
>> people is a way of buying votes!

Robert Naiman wrote:
> Yeah, for years the opposition in Venezuela said the same thing: the
> government's social programs are a way of "buying the votes" of poor
> people.

that's true, but we should be careful not to put Chávez and
Ahmadinejad in the same category.
-- 
Jim Devine / It's time to Occupy the New Year!
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