Tag: economy
member name: Rory M.
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June 20, 2007 11:48 PM EDT --
Governments have been on a prolonged orgy of deregulation and privatization of services that had previously been delivered under strict controls or public ownership.
The perfect example of this is the . . .
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July 09, 2007 11:15 AM EDT --
The trend in politics today is to reduce, in many cases eliminate, government services. This trend reflects the consensus amongst the population that government is inefficient, too costly, burdensome, . . .
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February 25, 2009 07:58 PM EST --
Dictionary.com defines socialism as follows:
1. a theory or system of social organization that advocates the vesting of the ownership and control of the means of production and distribution, of . . .
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August 11, 2007 09:52 PM EDT --
The word "money" has uncertain etymological origins, though it is probably derived from the Latin (of course) moneta which was a title given to the Roman god Juno whose temple was near to the . . .
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November 19, 2007 02:01 PM EST --
The knee-jerk answer to this question, the one almost everyone gives without pausing even a micro-second to think about their response, the one on many people's lips much of the time, the one . . .
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July 17, 2009 09:09 PM EDT --
There is a conviction in the Western world, particularly in America , that capitalism and democracy are almost one and the same thing, or at least complimentary to one another. The corollary to that . . .
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September 20, 2008 02:00 AM EDT --
With the crisis in the financial markets of recent months and especially the past week, and the back-of-cocktail-napkin policy writing on the fly, there is a very big change coming to the way Americans . . .
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November 16, 2008 01:41 AM EST --
Freedom ain't free. It's kind of a slogan, isn't it. You might see it on a bumper sticker, perhaps on the back of a beat up Ford F150 beside a "Support Our Troops" . . .
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March 16, 2007 12:55 PM EDT --
There is a tendency to compare the war in Iraq with the war in Vietnam, especially as opposition to the war continues to rise as it did during the waning years of the Vietnam war.
The question must be . . .
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January 08, 2007 11:57 PM EST --
America has never been an empire in the same way that, for example, Britain and Spain once were. Those nations established colonies around the globe from Hong Kong to North America and from The Philippines . . .
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October 02, 2006 01:22 PM EDT --
Canada and the United States have histories that intertwine almost completely and, famously, have shared what for many decades has been known as the longest undefended border in the world (though modern . . .
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October 05, 2006 03:02 PM EDT --
On July 20th, 1969 a human being set foot on another world for the first time ever. Of all the firsts that we have ever achieved, none are more significant than this one.
Humanity doesn't like to . . .
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December 18, 2006 10:19 PM EST --
It is often said by right wing politicians and pundits that the best government is the government which governs least.
This saying is in keeping with the ideology that embraces the supremacy of the individual . . .
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February 10, 2007 02:31 AM EST --
We live in an age of rage. Think about it. There's road rage, air rage tax rage not to mention exotic forms of rage with labels like "going postal".
For some reason, this era in which we . . .
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