Right now everyone seems to be getting terribly excited about saving capitalism. Which is fair enough, in the face of global meltdown. However, it seems to me that the price of saving capitalism is increasingly likely to be “democracy”. Which would be a shame as I’m a big fan of democracy. On the whole, I think it’s a good thing.
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It has become clear to everyone except the professional political class that things cannot go on this way. . . The most important fact is that the neo-liberal experiment of the last few decades, what one might call the Great Leap Backward, has failed. In fact this project must be considered to constitute as great a crime against humanity as Stalin’s or Mao’s. . . In economic terms the measure of capitalism’s failure is the growth of inequality. The gap between the global rich and poor has increased over the last few decades. Wealth does not ‘trickle down’, on the contrary it is siphoned up. . .
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No doubt St. Ronnie McDumb Ass is looking up at us ever so proudly. And Grover, the confused size-queen, how is that government girth working out for you, is it yet down to the ideal volume where you can drown it in the bathtub?
Journalist Bill Moyers delivers the keynote address at Public Citizen’s 40th Anniversary Gala. For more information, visit http://www.citizen.org/40gala.
[T]he Obama administration and Congress in 2010 eliminated two thirds of federal funding for abstinence-only-until-marriage education, and, in a historic shift, allocated close to $190m for comprehensive sex education. . . [The Republican presidential candidates] . . . are stalwart critics of science-based and medically accurate sex education, and frequently demonstrate that they never received it. . . The South, beacon of Christian virtue, has, according to the [Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States], the highest concentration of abstinence-only education and also the riskiest teen sexual behavior.
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Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX), consistently one to jump at the chance to abandon a focus on jobs, insisted, “There are few things Congress could do that would be more important than passing this resolution. It reaffirms ‘In God We Trust’ as the official motto of the United States.” Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ) suggested that without this resolution “there is no longer any reason for us to gather here in this place,” and we would all be nothing more than “worm food.”
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