The laissez faire hand of the blobal market place at work.
Trying to foment a middle class (rule of law) there, and ostensibly everywhere else, while eliminating the embattled one here.
That's the Casanova hand, through which money and politics are conducted, there, and ever increasingly, here.
Take a look at some of the items David Kaiser has posted recently, on the corrupting influence of mere money in American politics.
The parallels are striking:
Clinton, on the Middle East:
“Trying to get a permit..., you have to pass money through so many different hands. Trying to open up, you have to pay people off. Trying to stay open, you have to pay people off. Trying to export your goods, you have to pay people off. So by the time you pay everybody off, it’s not a very profitable venture.”
DK on the US:
'Abramoff overdid it, of course--along with that sweetheart Ralph Reed of the Christian coalition, he was taking money from rival casinos, one trying to shut down the other--money from casino A to shut down B, and then money from B to re-open. It apparently takes a certain amount of money to get introduced to certain powerful Congressmen.'
It's been getting more and more like that every day, over here, while middle class is vanishing. Although a systemic problem, few really see it that way, and no one really is pushing for structural reforms.
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