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Schäuble as a latter-day Nelson on the eve of battle. LOL.

Still, it has occurred to me in light of Greece that we haven't discussed good governance and civil society much here as such, particularly under the aspect of their complementarity (though I think they are often implicit in comments).

The fact is that what we're experiencing right now is a top-down disaster. -Paul Krugman

by dvx (dvx.clt ät gmail dotcom) on Sat Mar 13th, 2010 at 06:15:54 AM EST
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I was thinking more along the lines of Schaeuble as the Bellman from 'The Hunting of the Snark'.

ROFL - my comment above is already the no. 4 google hit for 'maxim tremendous but trite'. All hail ET's almighty page rank!

En un viejo país ineficiente, algo así como España entre dos guerras civiles, poseer una casa y poca hacienda y memoria ninguna. -- Gil de Biedma

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sat Mar 13th, 2010 at 06:25:48 AM EST
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Talos has been missing from here, and I'm sure he would have the most insight into Greek bureaucracy and governance. From some of the reports about pay for gov't workers, it doesn't seem to be all that much. We might begin to ask what these workers would be doing otherwise.
by Upstate NY on Sat Mar 13th, 2010 at 05:58:40 PM EST
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