[lbo-talk] Elections

[Wojtek S]

Greetings from Luxembourg.  I woke up this morning to check the
election results and finding out that O won really made my day.  I
expected that, of course, but there was always a chance of things
going wrong.  The Europeans whom I was meeting asked about my reaction
and I explained it as follows "I am of course happy that O won,
because the other guy was a much worse choice.  But this is mainly
good for you, because it means no new war, but for us it is more of
the same, given that Reps maintain the control of the House.  That
means more partisan bickering and not much being done - a bad thing
for us."

As to the local elections, Maryland liberals favored in state tuition
for children of immigrants and same sex marriages, but rejected
collective bargaining for police officers in Montgomery county
http://www.gazette.net/article/20121107/NEWS/711079527/1007/montgomery-county-police-lose-effects-bargaining&template=gazette

This goes with my earlier argument about entrepreneurial
libertarianism of the US middle class - more personal freedom, less
collective rights.  Marv?

-- 
Wojtek

"An anarchist is a neoliberal without money."