On AlterNet: social contract

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Cable Companies' $46+ Billion Robbery -- Subscribers Have Been Ripped off for $5 a Month Since 2000

David Rosen, Bruce Kushnick, AlterNet. November 8, 2010.

The cable companies are diverting money that is intended to improve infrastructure, creating a perpetual cash machine for greedy execs.

Why a Civil Society -- Like Ours Is Supposedly -- Extends Unemployment Benefits

Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog. September 1, 2010.

A record number of Americans is unemployed for a record length of time. This is a national tragedy.

Were You Born on the Wrong Continent? Why You'd Probably Be Healthier and Wealthier in Germany

Thomas Geoghegan, In These Times. August 17, 2010.

How Europe makes people's everyday life much more pleasant to live in.

What We Could Do with All That Money We Waste on War

Stephen Pizzo, News for Real. March 9, 2010.

If the government can't protect people from would-be enemies AND provide basic social services, those leaders are in defacto default of their social contract with their own people.

8 Things That Must Happen Now to Salvage the Economy -- and the Country

Jeff Madrick, The Nation. December 30, 2008.

The U.S. is no longer merely in crisis; it is in a state of emergency. And it will take more than re-regulating Wall Street to fix it.