There is another thread where I questioned the relationship between the ousted IMF director-general and the DR. Being a Socialist, DSK, was quite friendly with the decidedly leftist PLD.
Then I was reading an article by Robert Kuttner in the Huffington Post, and a light went on. Read this snippet:
"French voters are increasingly sick of Sarkozy, whose cheesy behavior and deep cuts in French social benefits have led to a search for alternatives. But even before this episode, Strauss-Kahn looked like nothing so much as a faux-left version of Sarkozy. The latest outrage leaves voters to feel that elites, regardless of professed party identity, serve mainly themselves, their own megalomania, tawdry materialism and sense of invulnerability."
That last sentence struck home. Recently Andy Dauhajre mentioned the director of a supposedly bankrupt state institution who has purchased villas and whose son is drinking champagne like it was "mab?"...
Who amongst us does not know of at least one government official who is not obviously well to do?
This is a time bomb...
HB
Then I was reading an article by Robert Kuttner in the Huffington Post, and a light went on. Read this snippet:
"French voters are increasingly sick of Sarkozy, whose cheesy behavior and deep cuts in French social benefits have led to a search for alternatives. But even before this episode, Strauss-Kahn looked like nothing so much as a faux-left version of Sarkozy. The latest outrage leaves voters to feel that elites, regardless of professed party identity, serve mainly themselves, their own megalomania, tawdry materialism and sense of invulnerability."
That last sentence struck home. Recently Andy Dauhajre mentioned the director of a supposedly bankrupt state institution who has purchased villas and whose son is drinking champagne like it was "mab?"...
Who amongst us does not know of at least one government official who is not obviously well to do?
This is a time bomb...
HB
