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2010-09-14 Economy

Civil Servants Are the New Privileged Elite Class

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2010-09-14 13:01|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#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|| 2010-09-14 13:42|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2010-09-14 14:13|| Front Page Top

#3 See Nomenklatura.

It's the Obama way.

Posted by DMFD 2010-09-14 21:41|| 2010-09-14 21:41|| Front Page Top

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