commies are super-handy right now, cuz those mean chinese are beating up tibetans, undercutting our work force, poisoning our dogfood and polluting up a storm.
start with the russians though, they're badass enough, and getting uppity.
move in the gunboats, crank up the terra alerts, under the bed with all thinking citizens, (since they have too little disposable denaro to do any more serious shopping any more...) ~Government budget deficits are not nearly as dangerous as the deficits we have created in vital and complex natural systems.~ Naomi Klein.
...Medvedev holds the same neoliberal and meritocratic values as his G8 peers; he is no more of a socialist or even a social democrat. In a telling passage in his inaugural speech, he said he wanted more Russians "to swell the ranks of the middle class and gain access to good education and healthcare". There was no suggestion that single mothers, the elderly, the poor and unskilled workers might also deserve decent services. No word either about stopping the decline of state schools and hospitals and their accelerating marketisation, as parents and patients have to pay for what used to be free while private institutions emerge to cream off the best staff. Everything is subordinated to the rightwing yuppie view that only the middle classes matter, since they (ie people like me) are the motor for growth and democracy.
