What a GREAT article! Why can’t anyone in the USA write such insightful analysis of our current situation? There is a sentence in paragraph 9 that you won’t see in an American paper these days, when courage is as rare as integrity in our pitiful press.
They are written, then tossed out by the editors, or failed in class by the professors and teachers.
“Senator Christopher Dodd, a Democrat who chairs the committee that is supposed to scrutinise such things, denied amending the stimulus legislation to allow the bonuses to be paid. He was lying, as he now admits. He was in fact bullied into it by administration officials, for reasons that remain unclear. Both Senator Dodd and President Obama had donations from AIG to their campaigns of more than $100,000 last year, which may or may not have anything to do with it.”