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    Historically state monopolies have run all electricity generation, gas distribution, telecommunications networks, public transport, turf/fuel production, agricultural produce marketing, health…
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    • And the thing the Heritage Foundation glosses over is that Ireland is one of the most heavily unionised countries in…
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    • We have the equivalent fear here in Europe that the "European social market economy" is being undermined by US style…
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    • They're right. In medieval times the Church did many of the things the state does now. Moving from a Church…
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    • Isn't there some law precluding the CIA spying domestically on Americans within the US? Wouldn't tasking the DIA to do…
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    • Wasn't there an election since Simpson Bowles reported? And didn't a guy advocating higher taxes on the rich actually win?…
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    • If they accurately understood the polling data, their donors would have been melting away early, the media would have lost…
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    • Never underestimate a person's ability to believe something if their livelihood/future depends on believing it. Magical thinking isn't limited to…
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    • It's not like Obama to simply have some fun by f*cking with Republican heads. It also hasn't been his style…
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    • Republicans tend to represent a disparate coalition of old money and rural poor. Knowledge economy workers, on the other hand,…
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    • Booman Tribune ~ Comments ~ ObamaCare Will Reshape the ElectorateWhen you take a poor, white family of four living in…
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    • Phew - the commentary on this Diary at Daily Kos is pretty hostile. I've been called many things, but Concern…
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    • If not this time, the Republicans will seek to hold Obama to ransom every time the debt ceiling needs raising…
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    • Booman Tribune ~ Comments ~ Sabotaging ObamaCareIn fact, demand is only elastic to the extent that providers make it so.…
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    • The only rational reason for deductibles and co-pays is to ration consumption. Demand for health care tends to be very…
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    • I remember reading somewhere that there is nothing to prevent Obama effectively implementing a public option BY EXECUTIVE ORDER simply…
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    • Money is what you need when the truth is not on your side. When SCOTUS ruled that money and free…
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    • The big weakness on the Dem side is with the two obvious best candidates - Hillary has said she won't…
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    • You mean like what? Government is about HELPING people? EMPATHIZING with their needs? Doesn't EVERYBODY know the Government can't create…
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    • Is not part of the reason they want more local control of education the fact that they can then enforce…
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