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Gnomemoot: should we get on the record? | 26 comments (26 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)
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rightly trust their governments (or at least their State bureaucracies) more than Americans. They trust their politicians less. Is this what you meant?

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Thu Mar 9th, 2006 at 08:21:19 AM EST
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I realize 'government' is too broad a term, and I can agree with your distinction except for the rightly which is a value judgement I am not prepared to generalize.

A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman
by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Mar 9th, 2006 at 08:34:32 AM EST
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