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Saturday, June 28, 2003
The Best Democracy Money Can Buy About a week ago I finished reading Greg Palast's book with that title. I mean, come on, we all know that money buys power. But perhaps if you read his book you might get a little angry and do something about it. Some chapters are better than others... If you can borrow a copy and only have time to read one chapter, read the one on how Bush managed to win Florida in the 2000 election. If true, this is an eye-opening lesson about every possible thing that can go wrong in elections. The rest of the chapters feel more like laundry lists of corruption and republican wrong-doing. (He does dish about the Dems, as well, but we don't necessarily know if there's less to dish or if he's politically biased. I sort of lean towards the former.) And you start to wonder if this guy's book and research is really true... Is the government and politicians really that corrupt? I came across an article in this week's New York Times magazine about the effort to re-build Iraq which gave me pause. It seems that a sub-division of Haliburton (remember, Dick Cheney's company) won a cushy contract to get the oil flowing again without a definite end or ceiling to the monetary compensation. The goverment justified awarding the contract to them by saying they were the only company that was capable of implementing the plan. Hmph. And who wrote the plan? Answer, Haliburton. Don't you wish you were capable of writing government plans in such a way that you were the only one who could implement them and you could get away with charging them whatever price you want since they can't hire anyone else? | private feedback | |
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