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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
Eric lots of things should be obvious to governments, but they just don't seem to be......if these were things that really affected MP's perhaps something would get sorted, but they clearly live in a different world to those who pay for their services.(and their heating bills)
A lot of hot air is generated by those who frequent the POW..shame it can't be deployed to heat the homes of the old folks...much is said, but little is done.
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Tories ... at least the kind of tories holding power in the UK, and lusting after it in the US ... know damn well what the results of their policies will be. Like extreme socialists, they are ideologically driven. (The little guy tends to get a better deal under social democratic parties.)
As an aside, I really don't understand what "New" Labor is
And I don't think I really want to. Seems like a party formed for the benefit of the ordinary citizen has drifted to the center ... perhaps a little farther ... interested in nothing more than votes and power. Hang on; can I hear Keir Hardie spinning in his grave
Whatever ... common sense (a rarity, I know) suggests that the best economy is a mixed economy .... a mixture of nationalization and private enterprise. Concentration of power in the hands of the few, whether those few be major corporations, or govt. bureaucrats, is wrong. But government has to take an active role in the economy. They can't just sit back and let the robber barons rob us blind.