I actually think that is a good strategy. Politics is the art of executing a dialectic. See the problem? Here’s the solution! Unfortunately, it’s only a good strategy when the counterpunch is actually smart deregulation, de-licensing, lower taxes and a credit and money supply determined by the market.
This kind of reminds me of the popular notion of the good economy of the Clinton Era, despite the congress being republican majority for that period. It makes me wonder what the economy would be like without the republicans’ largely illusory struggle to preserve the market.
The nurse that was fooled by a horrible impersonation of Her Majesty and gave up medical information about Kate was found dead.
Allegedly, it was suicide, but yeah… she was probably killed to send a message to nurses, doctor’s, etc. to not reveal personal information about Her Majesty’s family.
@The Muffinburg: Wow, that is really… wow. I listened to the prank call and I’m withholding judgment on whether this was necessarily a murder. I imagine that the nurse received dire threats and intimidation from the hospital administration (“Your career is over, you’ll never work again” kind of thing) and it is conceivable that Saldanha could have been driven to suicide by this. By the way, I’m curious about her immigration status. While the royals take their privacy deadly seriously, I imagine they receive the majority of their medical care by means of private doctors anyway. When I first heard of Kate’s hospital visit, I immediately thought it was a publicity stunt, a convenient way to convey the impression that “royals use the NHS, too, just like everybody else”.
But I can assure you those radio hosts’ careers are over and I would be surprised if the royal family doesn’t have this seen to - not so much because they breached royal privacy (which, in Kate’s case, isn’t really that big of a deal, apparently) - but because they wantonly mocked and ridiculed the Queen’s and Crown Prince’s persons. Moral of the story: Think twice before mocking a monarch, her successor and his successor in a country whose government belongs to that monarch.
It really impresses me how simple they make those concepts seem. I was struggling in my Macro class this week trying to figure out whether the economy is demand-driven or supply-driven and their video made it immediately clear to me.
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