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In reply to the discussion: Weekend Economists Batten Down the Hatches October 26-28, 2012 [View all]Demeter
(85,373 posts)50. A Stalemate May be the best we the People can hope for
It's not like FDR will be reincarnated, or Pecora, or any of the giants of our glorious past.
And that's more than depressing. If I knew that the country would be ruled by bought-off pygmies, I would have trained for public office, instead of engineering. There was a whole crop of promising young public servants from the Boomers. What happened to them all? I knew some of them, at EPA and such.
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