People in power will go as far as they are allowed to go and it is the voting system that decides. Its a power balance. The better the politician lie the more power they have, the smarter the people vote, the less. I was wondering how the system in Germany works. Can you vote a party as well as a person?

lol
Where is BW btw? We IC-oldies are starting to grow very thin.

One of the major problems I see is how to get the money to the right people.
1.) How will you get the money to the right location?
2.) How will you know the people who subscribe actually exist?
3.) How will you know they don't have to transfer it to local mafia?
There WILL be bureaucracy whether you like it or not. When you have bureaucracy you need to spend a huge amount of money to control systems.

tell us something we don't know

@wfs:
Only thing obama has proved to do so far is spending an enormous amount of tax payers money to save the creators of the problems asses. Whether you are left or right you cannot deny what happened: Some people f.u. big time, were allowed to be greedy, helped creating a crisis, and then they got tax money thrown at them so they can do it again. Its a very dangerous state of affairs when a president get away with something like that. Its beyond believe. Its not about a few cents but an insane amount of money.

I'm very skeptical about the reform in health care. If he does it right, I will be the first to admit it, but till then I do not believe it will happen. Even if he tries, Its unsure if he has enough power and influence to make it happen.

Next time you post let it be something like this :
IA
DS
Justinian

...especially last months.

like sex?

...Deci were have you been?
Welcome back alright.

The riots started again during the "40-days-after" mourning of the deaths of 20/05. This returning of protest is probably the reason that the current regime could overthrow the previous one. Maybe it will not in this case but at least it shows that the antipathy of many Iranians against the current regime continues.

If it keeps going on like this maybe one day in the future resistance will be large enough to overthrown the current regime. Chances are small tough I'm afraid.

I hope so but I think it has little chance unless something like that happens again. Or at least in the short run.

"Clinton would be better than Palin though"
I think both of them would make horrible presidents.