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Martin Wolf: c'mon, make the jump | 32 comments (32 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

I fear you are right. It seems impossible for our political systems to design and implement effective policies in any domain whatever. It's very distressing. Maybe, I should crack my old copy of Legitimation Crisis.

by PIGL on Wed Jun 24th, 2009 at 10:19:04 AM EST
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To be more precise (4.00 / 3)

It's impossible for our political systems as currently captured by moneyed interests to design and implement effective* policies in any domain whatever.

* with "effective" meaning something else than "making the rich richer"

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

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Wed Jun 24th, 2009 at 10:21:43 AM EST
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Re: To be more precise (4.00 / 2)

And nothing effective will be done until the financial class has conclusively shown that they are incapable of getting us out of this mess. That will constitute a crisis of legitimacy. It is, in fact, already ocuring, but this is not widely recognized as yet.

As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."

by ARGeezer (ARGeezer a in a circle eurotrib daught com) on Wed Jun 24th, 2009 at 01:27:33 PM EST
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