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Faithful One Donating Member (114 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-17-11 09:19 PM
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From Al Jazeera: Modernising Liberalism
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2011/11/201111101446286661.html


"Moribund liberalism and moribund conservatism leave us with the worst of both worlds. Conservatives offer knee-jerk opposition to new government spending of all kinds while maintaining a religious faith in the efficiency of the market, even in the face of a financial crisis that originated with the deregulation of the financial sector and accelerated the collapse of much of the US' productive economy. Liberals attempt to redistribute a shrinking economic pie down the income distribution, stimulate consumer demand with government spending, and replace unionised manufacturing jobs, once the means to economic mobility for America's working class, with unionised public-sector jobs."

Kind of an interesting article.

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