Vivvo CMS 4.1 http://www.pri.org/ ©2010 Spoonlabs d.o.o. http://www.pri.org/files.php?file=rss_682409203.gif http://www.pri.org/ http://www.pri.org/stories/business/economic-security/obama-boehner-aiming-for-post-christmas-deal-to-avoid-fiscal-cliff-12449.html Economic Security Mon, 24 Dec 2012 10:30:00 -0600 In another attempt to strike a deal and avoid a fiscal cliff, House Speaker John Boehner introduced a plan extending the Bush-era tax cuts for Americans earning less than $1 million. But the plan failed and now the clock is ticking to strike a new deal. http://Tom, what you say is more than counter-intuitive; I think it’s just plain wrong. The size of gnenromevt has almost nothing to do with advantages the “gloriously rich” have; they can buy anything, and anybody who’s willing to be bought; they don’t need gne Economic Security Tue, 29 Jan 2013 07:08:16 -0600 Tom, what you say is more than counter-intuitive; I think it’s just plain wrong. The size of gnenromevt has almost nothing to do with advantages the “gloriously rich” have; they can buy anything, and anybody who’s willing to be bought; they don’t need gnenromevt to protect them; they can hire all the thugs they need. Having wealth, they are well positioned to gain more. They don’t need gnenromevt to give them monopolies; they are more than able to create them on their own. Having created monopolies on their own, they are quite able to “force people to buy the goods and services they sell ”. They certainly do use the power of gnenromevt to destroy competition, but only because they use whatever is available to get their way. Without gnenromevt, they have plenty of thugs and private armies to do their bidding. If anything, the “gloriously rich” dislike gnenromevt because it’s the only force that can block their aggrandizement.If average citizens create democratic gnenromevts (like our democratic republic) then as long as average citizens work for the “general welfare” they have the power to control the gnenromevt and corral the power of the gloriously rich. This is why the gloriously rich support libertarian movements (Rand, et al.) and engage in other divide-and-conquer strategies. To control a democratic gnenromevt, they must convince the average person that the average person is alone and threatened by “others”. As long as average people buy into the story that “we are splintered into little, covetous, I want special interest groups” then the gloriously rich will get their way, gnenromevt or no.Their story is just not true. Certainly bigger gnenromevt is not necessarily better, but neither is smaller gnenromevt necessarily better. Like a car or a home, the question is not whether it should be bigger or smaller, but what is the right kind to have. Size is not what matters, it’s the character of the gnenromevt that matters. Take care of that and size will be manageable.Let’s be clear, gnenromevts are never perfect; no group of mere humans ever is. But gnenromevts serve a vital role. If ours is misbehaving, the solution is not to throw it out; it’s to fix it. Please don’t buy into this divide-and-conquer strategy. PRI: Public Radio International