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This, my friends, is why we can't have nice things | 59 comments (59 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)
Re: Meanwhile in Italy (4.00 / 5)
They are all scared shitless of the markets, and to a certain extent they are right since the State has been hollowed out by 30+ years of Reagan-Thatcher and 15+ years of 3rd way.

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 Fri Nov 28th, 2014 at 05:49:59 PM EST
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This, my friends, is why we can't have nice things | 59 comments (59 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)
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