<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/7dd195d8-7e68-4d17-9332-a32c9dc559ba/D24DEDD4-9F38-47FF-84A9-2B5298A00F68/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.nrc.nl/international/opinion/article2366152.ece/Nobody_is_in_charge_in_the_Netherlands_-_even_democracy_has_been_privatised" href="http://www.nrc.nl/international/opinion/article2366152.ece/Nobody_is_in_charge_in_the_Netherlands_-_even_democracy_has_been_privatised" style="font-size: 11px;">www.nrc.nl</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nrc.nl/international/opinion/article2366152.ece/Nobody_is_in_charge_in_the_Netherlands_-_even_democracy_has_been_privatised"><H1> Nobody is in charge in the Netherlands - even democracy has been privatised</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nrc.nl/international/opinion/article2366152.ece/Nobody_is_in_charge_in_the_Netherlands_-_even_democracy_has_been_privatised"><P align=""> Ask Dutch people about their country and they will probably smile and sigh: great country, but why are we making such a mess of it? </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nrc.nl/international/opinion/article2366152.ece/Nobody_is_in_charge_in_the_Netherlands_-_even_democracy_has_been_privatised"><P align=""> The financial crisis has cost many people their jobs and financial security at a time when most already felt that untamed neo-liberalism overemphasised the role of money and profit in public life. Even worse, for the past 10 to 15 years, government has asserted that many a public task could best be left to the free market. In a nutshell: the government lost its faith in government as a place to solve public problems and perform formerly public tasks. <SPAN class="streamer">No public service remained untouched</SPAN> </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nrc.nl/international/opinion/article2366152.ece/Nobody_is_in_charge_in_the_Netherlands_-_even_democracy_has_been_privatised"><P align=""> Significantly, nobody has seriously examined whether any of the promised successes were delivered. But despite a lack of research, the failures are there for all to see. The death of a man who was beaten by an unregulated ('free') Amsterdam taxi driver is <A href="http://www.nrc.nl/international/article2292232.ece">a fatal example</A>. </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/D24DEDD4-9F38-47FF-84A9-2B5298A00F68/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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