[Kalamity Jane]

Well I'm here in the Independent thread because that's what I am...a registered Independent...have been for 30 years. I'm also a "raging social LIBERAL"...but you already know that..and I'm a fiscal conservative...in other words, I don't really fit any basket real well, so I do the best I can by digging up information, listening to C-Span, NPR Radio, and re-aquainting myself with our system of government and how it works. I've also been doing a crash course on economics...

Alan Greenspan, and what should be done with him, was mentioned this morning in another thread so I thought some here might be interested in an article about Greenspan written by John Dean,

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Greenspan bluntly writes that under the Republicans, "[g]overnance has become dangerously dysfunctional." This is the way a central banker says it is broken. (They have their own language, of course - one that Greenspan only occasionally employs, usually to be diplomatic.)

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We should applaud Greenspan for addressing corporate authoritarianism, especially as he is daring to nibble (not exactly bite) the hands that have fed him. He learned of corporate authoritarianism firsthand as a director on countless company boards of directors. He makes no mention, however, of the authoritarianism that has invaded the GOP or of the authoritarian Republican concept that may one day overpower the independence of the Federal Reserve, which he believes essential to our economy: the so-called "unitary executive theory."
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Enjoy, or not, as you choose...

KJ