Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2013-02-23]: Germany's development minister has suggested food tainted with horsemeat should be distributed to the poor.Dirk Niebel said he supported the proposal by a member of the governing CDU party, and concluded: "We can't just throw away good food". [source: BBC News] Instead of fighting the problems, politicians want to avoid them. Instead of helping their citizens, they just want to help their friends. With all worthy people already leaving Europe or not having the time to do anything else but work, politics in Europe has become a means to promote stupidity, mediocrity and cunningness... (c) Philosophy WIRES - Commenting world news from philosophy's perspective...
