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| Civil Servants Are the New Privileged Elite Class |
| 2010-09-14 |
| Posted by:GolfBravoUSMC |
| #3 See Nomenklatura. It's the Obama way. |
| Posted by: DMFD 2010-09-14 21:41 |
| #2 They're generally not civil and they don't serve. I term them accurately "The extortion funded sector". |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2010-09-14 14:13 |
| #1 More evidence of the Mexification of America. A hallmark of latin oligarchies is a huge, entrenched, politically powerful public sector union movement that sucks up significant financial resources and that is a key political player with its own sense of entitlement and process rights-- see PEMEX. In those societies, you're either part of a large "corporate" or sectoral interest (the oil industry, agri-barons, educationists etc) that's allied with the state bureaucracy, or you're out of luck, as is the case with small and medium-sized buisinessmen, professionals, farmers who don't own large latifundia or estates, and peons generally. The economy in these oligarchies is what the marxists call an "epiphenomenon," a reflection of the prevailing political force configuration. Politics is what drives economic resource allocation, not market forces. Mexico, here we come. |
| Posted by: lex 2010-09-14 13:42 |