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! _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
