I blame the voters July 3, 2007
Posted by ocmpoma in : politics , trackbackThey, after all, provide politicians with the incentives to behave in a manner not which provides the best policy, but which provides the best chance of re-election.
Exhibit: in the latest issue of The Economist, there is a letter to the editor from one Michael Moore (no, not that one, but rather the Senior VP (Commercial) of DP World), about the uproar last year over DP World’s involvement in US ports… and its current involvement:
“As any astute observer of inside Washington’s Beltway would know, the uproar was more to do with the political dynamics of an election year. As proof, consider the Secure Freight Initiative, the American programme launched in direct response to our crisis: DP World is the central partner in the private sector. In other words, we are building a programme to protect America from the very same threat that Congress said we posed to America in the first place. No one on Capitol Hill has uttered a word of protest.”
Me? I blame the voters.
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