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Great diary - and jan, good to see you back!

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Fri Nov 18th, 2005 at 04:17:36 AM EST
thx! I moved to another flat and it took my new telephone company about 7 weeks to get me online. Another myth of the benefits of privatization was destroyed right in front of my eyes :-)
by jandsm on Fri Nov 18th, 2005 at 04:28:09 AM EST
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before we realize that privatization just means looting whatever still functions?  

You guys in the EU should take a good, hard look before following the US down that long, dark road.  

The Fates are kind.

by Gaianne on Tue Nov 22nd, 2005 at 05:51:01 AM EST
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We need more Americans to loudly make that point in the European media.

In 2000 I had an opportunity to attend a Nader rally and was amazed at his favourable depiction of the European model. I thought then that he should go on a speaking tour around Europe.

A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Nov 22nd, 2005 at 05:53:34 AM EST
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The flip side to privatization is that when a large corporation or a whole industry crashes, instead of a government bailout there should be a government buy-out.

Unfortunately governments are afraid of suggesting that. But they should do so, and forcefully.


A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Nov 22nd, 2005 at 05:59:32 AM EST
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