Bush's 4th veto of his presidency is a good one

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I am furious about it, and I do think investment is important. I am just furious at the people who have the power and abuse it rather than the people who buy access to that power. Get rid of the first lot and the second lot won't be able to operate.

[/ QUOTE ]But the first lot only do what they do because the second lot demand it. Big business has disenfranchised the voter - globally, that is, but nowhere moreso than in the US. Big business pays them to bring in the policies big business wants; the politicians job is to propagandise that to the extent that folk like pvn actually seem to equate a national health service with the soviet union...

Any system which relies on good honest people in positions of power is fundamentally flawed; the kind of people who seek power are the last people who should be allowed to have it. Big business is about making money and it will always do that by whatever means necessary. Politicians are supposed to be there to make things run how the people want things to run, but that'll only happen if the voters actually demand it. Right now, they just stay at home in defeat. It's increasingly the same elsewhere, just not quite as extreme yet. It ain't democracy, and it ain't got anything to do with freedom.