[MD] Politics

[Khaled Alkotob]

 Chris

here are a few more comments about your question.

[Chris]
If we now have the state, and we can make it work for us, both 
working as a frame for social patterns of value and, furthering the 
development AND being controlled by  - intellectual patterns of value 
(reason) then why on earth should we not do so?

The unfortunate thing is that like so many things in life, once you make
a decision and stick with it, then you go pass the point-of-no-return,
eventually exhausting all of your resources.

Here is a story form todays newspapers:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2008/02/28/DI2008
022802960.html

it's about prison population in the US.

here is the Link to the full report in PDF format

http://www.pewcenteronthestates.org/uploadedFiles/One%20in%20100.pdf

and as you can see, we have a society that keeps telling people to
empower themselves, that socializing services is a bad thing, then we go
and spend billions of dollars to keep people locked up. Meanwhile we
offer them no training and no opportunity after they leave prison.

I live in a city of about 400,000 people. The city's budget is just over
a billion dollars. HALF of that goes to the police department.

Some prisons in the US are privately run. Whether private or public, it
costs about $50,000 a year to keep someone locked up.

Just a thought.

Khaled