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citaat uit AD: Bijzonder experiment: Arnhem gaat de schulden overnemen van zeker veertig gezinnen in Immerloo II, de armste wijk van Nederland. Raar maar waar: kandidaten vinden bleek enorm lastig.
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‘Hun gesprek was doorspekt met citaten in het Latijn en Grieks. In ieder geval gaven ze burgers die “de gemeente” (wie is of zijn dat?) niet vertrouwden 300% gelijk. ” S en Y hebben een poosje in die flats gewoond, en dat was bepaald geen pretje. Rolf Hensel heeft een perfecte foto geschoten, want zo adembenemend naargeestig is het daar inderdaad.” ‘
- ‘ “Het meest beroerde bij zo’n “welzijnsactie” van politici, of de politiek, is, dat je ze je gegevens moet geven, en dan komen er vast ook nog interviews bij. Naderhand weet je niet met wie je van doen hebt gehad en wat ze met je gevens doen. Neen hoor: blijf verre van politiek, op welk niveau dan ook.” Heb jij dat boek van Van Prooijen c.s. momenteel in behandeling. Nóg een boek over vertrouwen en representativiteit …… Je kunt er de starten mee plaveien ‘
‘ Dat is zo, ja. Een citaat van wijlen Rudy Andeweg uit die reader (pagina 177, H 10); A growing confidence gap in politics? Data versus discourse): This confidence gap between citizens and politics surfaces at least as regularly in political commentaries as the elusive Loch Ness Monster used to in other sections of the newspapers. To a certain extent the gap is more real than the monster. It is an inevitable side effect of any representative democracy. Etymologically, “‘representation’ means ‘representation,’ a making present of something absent – but not making it literally present. It must be made present indirectly, through an intermediary; it must be present in some sense, while nevertheless remaining literally absent” (Pitkin, 1969, p. 16). This ambiguity creates a tension between the principal and the agent and, in that sense, representation presupposes a gap. Ever since Edmund Burke and John Stuart Mill, political philosophers have debated the appropriate distance between citizens and their representatives. In addition, representative politics is competitive: elections produce winners and losers, and voters on the losing side obviously have less confidence in the new government than those who voted for the winners – a point to which I shall return. The issue, therefore, is not whether a confidence gap exists, but whether the gap has been widening in recent decades. * einde citaat *
Dit ter herinnering, want wij kenden hem bij ons thuis nog van vroeger. God betert, ik meen dat mijn vader Rudy Andeweg en Bart Tromp nog uit de dagen van de échte PvdA kende. Hoe die club in luttele jaren toch zo grondig gesloopt heeft kunnen worden.’
- Hoor dit eens (Deception as a means to an end An instrumental approach; pagina 55) : Lying is bad. Parents tell their children that they shouldn’t lie and punish lying or reward telling the truth when there was an opportunity to lie. In society, lying is often also deemed unacceptable and is punished when discovered. During the last decades, corporate fraud and large-scale scams have frequently appeared in the news. Some notorious cases are those of Enron, WorldCom Corp, and HealthSouth Corp. In the case of Enron, the wages of executives were dependent on the company’s stock value and thus on the company’s revenue. As a result, creative bookkeeping practices were employed with the sole purpose of boosting the company’s revenue. In the end, the book-keeping fraud was discovered and long jail sentences were issued. Another high-profile fraud was that of Bernard Lawrence Madoff. Madoff ran the largest Ponzi scheme in history. In this type of fraud, investors are promised an exceptionally high return on their investment, but in reality their money is never invested at all. The returns on their investments are paid using money from other investors. As a result, an ever-growing number of investors are needed to keep the scheme going. It was estimated that in the case of Madoff a total sum of $65 billion was involved. Madoff was sentenced to 150 years in prison for his scam. * einde citaat*
Zou jij nog durven bij jouw kinderen of studenten met zo’n tekst aan boord te komen?’
‘ Daarmee bewijs je ze geen goede dienst denk ik. Sinds het optreden van de Israëli in Palestina (Gaza en nu ook de WestBank) en de machinaties inzake de proxy-oorlog van Amer-Israël tegen Rusland, via de Oekraïne, kunnen al dit soort teksten de prullenbak in, want Might is Right. Dat is intussen duidelijk.’
- ‘ Ik herinner me een nuttiger boek. Met zulk soort boeken, kom je vandaag de dag het verste.’
