Oligarchs Bow to Putin's New Deal

[better2know]

http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2003/11/17/001.html

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President Vladimir Putin on Friday offered the nation's leading executives a new deal that few are likely to refuse: share your wealth or risk losing it.

The state, Putin told nearly 800 business leaders from across the nation, will work to strengthen property rights and reduce bureaucracy, but businesses must "fully recognize their social duties" by sharing their wealth and helping to reduce poverty.

"Today the president clearly stated that there should be a line between business and power. Many of my colleagues and I understand this and we don't intend to cross this line," Potanin said.

"We are coming to a point that whoever pays more to his majesty, the bureaucrat, gets his way," a visibly angry Putin said.

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Now if Putin stops here, he is a hero, if he continues his consolidation of power he is a dictator.

It's obvious that a few guys did not deserve to end up with all the communally owned property of the old USSR, it's also just as obvious that it shouldn't wind up in the hands of government or a shadow government.

We would be lucky to withdraw the power of corporations in the influence of our government, and equally unlucky if the government confiscates all this power.

-b2k

[papau]

1. Putin fights corporate control of politics --Bush's new Commies endorse it

I swear that the GOP acts like Russia's old communist party, as to power and priviledge and making the protection of each continuing with the current "rich" job one.