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Politics : Dutch Central Bank Sale Announcement Imminent? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: mcg404 who wrote (19902)	12/24/2003 9:37:52 AM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81118

Wendell Berry: "The [problem] can be solved only if people, individually and in their communities, recover responsibility for their thoughtlessly given proxies." Well, that ain't gonna happen. Got any better ideas? The notion that regulations won't work, and that the political process can't produce meaningful change defies history's lessons. Huge portions of the U.S.'s sensible regulatory regime were initiated in the FDR years. And the rules worked pretty darn well for 50 years, until the wrecking crew from the thuggish Republican rape-and-pillage wing started to demolish our regulatory system. I submit to you, sir, that our problems today spring not from a cohesive, well-considered, and politically derived regulatory system, but rather from its opposite; i.e. the cavaliers and pirates who've abused the political process to make their plundering pernicious, powerful and pervasive. How are you going to control the crooks who infest Wall Street and the corporate boardroom today? Better "Codes of Ethics"? Jaw-boning? Community pot lucks to sing Kumbaya? Get real. We need to revert back to what formerly worked, i.e. real regulation, politically achieved, in a mixed economy. The Republican market anarchists have gained way too much ascendancy for the sake of our communities and our children's futures. It is time we take back America for Americans. Howard Dean may bellow to his admirers, "YOU HAVE THE POWER". But where the rubber meets the road, we need someone like Dean in White House with real political power to ride herd over the rebels and racketeers who distilling today's Executive Branch water.