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Benchmarking

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  • 01-04-2001 1:48pm
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    amp
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    Ok so there's this benchmarking process which as I understand it means that a person in the public sector gets measured in terms of pay against a person in the private sector.

    Hence T.D's got something like 17% cos they run the country and senior judges cos they're senior and stuff.

    So does that mean we're now living in a corporation and not a democracy? Is Bertie our CEO? Will Party Policies be renamed Mission Statements?


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    DadaKopf
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    Yes, western, American-style 'democracy' is beginning to represent corporations more than public institutions which serve citizens as a whole.

    Politics has reached a stage these days where actual governmental policy is at odds with the political involvement the state's citizens can actively have. That seems to be why political activism has circumvented the actual political processes and has gone for something much more efficous.

    Since Big Business nowadays is responsible for most of the political decisions throughout Europe and America at least, politicians ignore the real needs of the people and the people are powerless to help. Where else can the public take peaceful protests against this order? In the very real where politics now lies: the marketplace.

    These days, it's a lot more effective to vote with your feet by boycotting products or making companies' operations difficult through direct action than it is going through legal procedures. The reason is that most of these are so labyrinthine that real, direct action is nearly impossible. If membership of democracy is supposed to be a kind of contract, then many people are breaking it!

    Even the North Dublin County Council is attempting to threaten our right to spontaneously protest, rather 'responsibly' hiding it behind a web of rediculous legal and monetary barriers and constraints. And this, my comrades, is to protect the shop owners - putting business over liberty.
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