tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post8912067169989513341..comments2024-03-22T05:20:44.167-07:00Comments on The Disaffected Lib: "The Good of the People Comes Before the Law." The Bullet We Dodged?The Mound of Soundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-43650481257462486712016-01-28T13:28:40.808-08:002016-01-28T13:28:40.808-08:00The Irish Times article says Poland's economy ...The Irish Times article says Poland's economy grew 28% over the period, while the EU's, at 2.5% annual growth over the 7 years would be ~19%. (I'm assuming the reported growth is over 7 years, I didn't check.) It's still a difference in favour of Poland. But not that great, considering how awful the economies of many EU members were during that period, and the relative poorness of Poland which suggests it ought to grow faster than more developed economies in the EU. <br /><br />crfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10726414637021391906noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-55492115607090003732016-01-27T16:45:01.735-08:002016-01-27T16:45:01.735-08:00Not for Publication.
You often mention your socia...Not for Publication.<br /><br />You often mention your social media. Are you on facebook? I would like to follow you there. You can find me Kim Poirier on facebook. (The one from Sooke, not the Quebec one ) Or send me an email kpoirier63@gmail.com.<br /><br />Cheers.Kimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15049617811090781174noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-50417851638263946092016-01-27T15:01:15.786-08:002016-01-27T15:01:15.786-08:00Yes Mound, we have learned "it can fall apart...Yes Mound, we have learned "it can fall apart with relative ease." Farley Mowat said in regards to Harper dismantling our democracy, "and we now know our democracy is a fragile thing." When the governments we vote in who are supposed to protect and support our democracy, instead set out to destroy it like Harper did, we then must be ever vigilant.Through out history it seems that tyranny seems to win out. We seem to have a period of time where we are free and then gradually authoritarianism seeps in and eventually takes over. We seem to be repeating this over and over again.Look at the right wing governments that have taken hold in Europe. They are building a world hierarchical structure, where it won't matter who holds the power,just like in the US. There is becoming a certain right wing world view taking hold along with a ruling group, who selects who the next successor will be. Global Neoliberalism is the driver of course of these right wing governments.It's fundamental to the building of the American Empire. It also destroys democratic sovereign Nations. I wonder though how people will be able to protect their democracy, when the very system that destroys democracy, Neoliberalism is something people know nothing about. The very name of the enemy of democracy, when said is met with a blank stare. It doesn't make me feel to secure about sustaining our democracy.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07842215982128591742noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-71675748498518780442016-01-27T13:57:11.468-08:002016-01-27T13:57:11.468-08:00It does me good to see that there were many people...It does me good to see that there were many people besides myself who saw democracy being eroded. I did not read every detail of the UNs Agenda 21 but, as with the middle class, I believe that in some quiet back room Democracy itself was also seen as unsustainable. The very people who came up with the basis for these "sustainability" beliefs, a smarmy right winger and an avowed socialist, and the plan for the 21st century both seemd capable of such thinking.<br /><br />The right wing in more than one country working toward the same end seems more than chance and I don't know of anywhere that socialism endures democracy,<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15087257029003339371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-20590397249787463362016-01-27T12:40:25.335-08:002016-01-27T12:40:25.335-08:00I think a good many of the Polish people, includin...<br />I think a good many of the Polish people, including a lot who voted for PiS believing its promises, are opposed to Kaczynski and his plans. It remains to be seen whether this will evolve into a constitutional coup d'etat in which democratic rights and freedoms are, under some guise or another, suspended.<br /><br />You and I, Pamela, were brought up convinced of the inherent robustness of democracy. Today we're seeing that it can fall apart with relative ease if it's not fiercely defended against all threats, external and internal alike.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-26586189959186770352016-01-27T12:30:17.436-08:002016-01-27T12:30:17.436-08:00Interesting Mound that Poland, who was under Sovie...Interesting Mound that Poland, who was under Soviet dictatorial rule, of which the Poles and rightfully so, despised, are now succumbing to their own self made dictatorial rule.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07842215982128591742noreply@blogger.com