Now, what I can't work out is how it got that way.

I'm guessing it was the invisible hand of free-market forces and deregulation.

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Fri Feb 20th, 2009 at 04:47:10 AM EST
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Or perhaps a lot of hard work by a lot of people?

notes from no w here
by Frank Schnittger (mail Frankschnittger at hot dotty communists) on Fri Feb 20th, 2009 at 06:08:11 AM EST
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Good ol Colman, always the "free narket fundamentalist"!

That's a serious < /snark > for you who don't know Colman...

"Once in awhile we get shown the light, in the strangest of places, if we look at it right" - Hunter/Garcia

by whataboutbob on Fri Feb 20th, 2009 at 11:59:58 AM EST
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... and so flame wars we get.

I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.
by BruceMcF (agila61 at netscape dot net) on Fri Feb 20th, 2009 at 12:26:01 PM EST
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