Elections - Предвыборное

[piterburg]

We've seen  “perhaps the greatest wealth transfer since the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia in 1917,” (says Michael Mandelbaum, author of “Democracy’s Good Name” )“It is not a wealth transfer from rich to poor that the Bush administration will be remembered for. It is a wealth transfer from the future to the present.”

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[skavish]

я могу ошибаться, но в статье явный призыв голосовать за Обаму. во всяком случае к нему это намного больше подходит.

ты же был не за него?

p.s. есть еще конечно вариант что каждый видит то что он хочет увидеть :)

[lovimoment]

Томас Фридман либерален и обычно поддержывает демократов, и всегда Обаму, но он тоже, в отличии от других редакторов (например, Морин Дауд - которая очень забавна но всё-таки не является хорошми источником информации), обращает внимание на вопрос, не на всякие дурные события и комметарии кампаний.

[piterburg]

That is why I always read Friedman's column, and never read Maureen's column - the latter is just political gossip trash.

[lovimoment]

Ah, but Maureen Dowd can be so entertaining sometimes!

[zvuv]

done! :)

[piterburg]

Good girl!...;-)

[27183]

The longer I live, the more I think that in a populist political system boom and bust cycles are unavoidable - during boom times any politician trying to rain on the parade will simply not last.

So, the generational "transfer of wealth" Friedman talks about was going to happen one way or another. Now that the chickens have come home to roost, it's time to correct, and we have two guys, one of whom may undercorrect and the other may overcorrect. Happy election day. :)

[piterburg]

I do not necessarily attribute that wealth transfer to Bush Administration or Republicans in general. IMHO, it was a perfectly bipartisan process spurred on as was by Democratic feel-good policies of entitlement. But Republicans signed on to this bandwagon once they realized they can make some hay from it. Hence my disappointment.

[27183]

I also meant that this was a 'bipartisan' effort - I merely pointed out that the voters weren't going to have it any other way whoever was in charge at any given moment. The party had to go on.

For me personally, when we went to war and cut taxes, I realized that 'conservatism' no long meant fiscal conservatism. That's the reason I skipped the 2004 election.

[piterburg]

Agree 100%.