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Yes, the prescription is precisely wrong, and of course it's a recipe for more neoliberal strip-mining.

But it's cleverly framed to read as if it's bottom-up populism.

When we're having a debate about presentation, it's worth remembering that this is how the Right lies - by making comments which seem inclusive and reasonable if you skim over them, but which hide the real agenda.

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Thu Jul 24th, 2008 at 05:44:56 AM EST
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And the paper sxallows it (or is complicit):


A member of the European Parliament, German politician Silvana Koch-Mehrin would like to see a decentralized Europe that puts its citizens first

Only if by "citizens" you understand "big business" and by "decentralised" you hear "powerless"

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Thu Jul 24th, 2008 at 06:09:22 AM EST
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