Obama & Putin Use the Media
In the US, Obama has threatened to sic the White House press corps on any company that doesn’t go along with his plans to manage wages and screw investors. In Russia, it seems to Putin is using the same method in regards to companies that don’t set prices to whatever he sees fit.
Russians are up in arms over rising food prices. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is using their ire to make himself appear to be in touch with the masses and to try to forestall any anti-government backlash. He has taken to haranguing executives in public, as if they were to blame for Russia’s sick economy.
Yesterday, he went to a supermarket with executives of food companies, retail managers, Cabinet ministers, and television crews in tow.
“Why do your sausages cost 240 rubles ($7.50)? Do you call that normal?” Putin asked the PR manager of X5 Retail, the company that owns Perekryostok, a midmarket chain. “But they’re good-quality sausages,” responded the PR guy, Yuri Koboladze, pointing out that there were lesser sausages going for 49 rubles. Putin wasn’t convinced.
Of course, it won’t make a difference at all. But who cares? It makes for good tv, right?
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Yeah, but that’s just them damned Russians, besides that, We have really important stuff to worry about………Michael Jackson, And Farrah, And Ed died……………So what the hell do we care about those damned Russians??
“Hey Ma, bring me a beer, I got sorrows to drown……………….”
They, Who the Hell is They?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bF3hniq_DiI