It varies from state to state, it’s usually been handled by some sort of state bureaucracy with all sorts of restrictions. Which I still think is a crappy, broken system, but less crappy and broken than the housing market. They still housed non-party members.
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Replying to @OhNoIts2016 @KEEMSTAR and
Without rule of law, a free press and democracy their are no checks to ensure the honesty of a bureaucracy or government. 2008 crisis Cause 1) deregulation of banking sector enacted by Bill Clinton 2) government backed lending to poor credit risks - NINJAS.
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Replying to @simon_enefer @KEEMSTAR and
Many Leninist states are more “democratic” than the United States (not China though), but I don’t recognize either as a fully legitimate form of democracy. They have de facto ruling classes. I’m strongly supportive of a free press, strongly opposed to banks & the housing market.
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Replying to @mediocre_danny @KEEMSTAR and
2. In the UK the elite was primarily from a very small group - a few thousand families - when I was born. This has changed as the UK became more like a meritocracy under Thatcher (they hated her for that!) But further change is needed.
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Replying to @simon_enefer @KEEMSTAR and
Nothing about Thatcher’s reforms were meritocratic. She ruined the rail system and directly led to dozens of accidents.
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Replying to @mediocre_danny @KEEMSTAR and
1. Not directly, but that was the result. She broke up many institutions like the City of London and nationalised industries and open the door to the ambitious middle and working class. She made lots of mistakes to deindustrialisation and not valuing society being just two.
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Replying to @simon_enefer @KEEMSTAR and
Deindustrialisation? UK Manufacturing Statistics http://www.themanufacturer.com/uk-manufacturing-statistics/ … |
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Replying to @BillEllson @KEEMSTAR and
Thatcher did remove large sectors of inefficient nationalised industries. Her mistake was not seeking to diversify the UK economy and develop new industries. The UK still produces innovative products and technologies, that isn't the problem. Where we fail is investing in them.
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Replying to @simon_enefer @BillEllson and
Couldn’t she just have removed the inefficient bits, though?
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Replying to @mediocre_danny @BillEllson and
Yes that would have been the sensible thing to do, but would the times have allowed to act that way. I don't think so. The NUM had already brought down governments.
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Whta governments?
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