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Blond would reduce the power of senior government officials and widen the discretion of front-line civil servants, the people actually working in neighborhoods. He would decentralize power, giving more budget authority to the smallest units of government. He would funnel more services through charities.

And this is meant to rehabilitate public service?? By making it inconsistent and subject to the whims of local officials or self-appointed charities?

Wind power

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Sat Mar 20th, 2010 at 06:03:36 AM EST
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...while he does not yet have practical policies capable of delivering on the ground, IMHO he's spot on in principle with his rhetoric: re-moralise the market; relocalise the economy; and re-capitalise the poor.

Centralised big government is just as much the problem as centralised big corporates, and the current unholy alliance of the two is, as we see, unsustainable.

"Any economic unit can emit money. The serious problem is to get it accepted" Hyman Minsky

by ChrisCook (cojockathotmaildotcom) on Sat Mar 20th, 2010 at 12:35:20 PM EST
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