[hedgetrimmer]

Stakeholders have two purposes in the corporatist fascist governance model we see taking shape here.

1. It gives people say in local decision making governmental processes where they wouldn't normally have them. For example, many 'stakeholders' from New England NGOs went to New Orleans to have a say in the planning process to rebuild the city after Katrina. There are often more 'stakeholders' in these meetings than citizens, who constitutionally speaking are really the only people who should have a say in their city. Their predetermined solutions get advanced in these meetings while constitutional solutions proposed by citizens are ignored.

2. It renders the voice of the citizen powerless. By inviting 'stakeholder' participation a meeting rather than a constitutional meeting using Robert's Rules and voting, the citizen can be allowed to 'vent' but no action has to be taken to address any complaints. A very good example of this is the "listening tour" that Hillary Clinton went on, and the "listening tour" last year the secretary of Agriculture did to shut up complaints about the CAFTA and the DOHA round of "free trade".

[nicmarlo]

Stakeholders have two purposes in the corporatist fascist governance model we see taking shape here.

Animal Farm lives and breaths.

[Czar]

" It renders the voice of the citizen powerless. By inviting 'stakeholder' participation a meeting rather than a constitutional meeting using Robert's Rules and voting, the citizen can be allowed to 'vent' but no action has to be taken to address any complaints."

When the government acts to deprive a citizen of his voice, then the Constitution lies in tatters. If this is the end game, then at that point there will be in Washington a government that has completely lost both its moral and legal authority to govern.

The crapweasels in Washington would do well to remember this.