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[torylltales.livejournal.com]

The $ marks on the grill are a nice touch.

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[hardblue.livejournal.com]

Ah, your public services are in some trouble, too?

[torylltales.livejournal.com]

Everyone's are, everywhere.

Except Scandinavia, but that's because of Nordic witchcraft.

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

I blame the Finns.

[torylltales.livejournal.com]

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

I like Chinese.

[unnamed525.livejournal.com]

They only up to your knees.

[hardblue.livejournal.com]

Well, that's kind of a big argument for the conservatives and
libertarians then, isn't it? that the welfare state cannot sustain itself.

[unnamed525.livejournal.com]

... only because of tax cuts for the upper class.

[hardblue.livejournal.com]

Yes, I guess it isn't fair if you create the crisis.

[torylltales.livejournal.com]

thing is, if it were allowed to operate as designed, it would (and has, in the past) work quite well. Problem is, lobbyists are convincing the highly-paid private-schooled MPs to devote less and less funding to welfare, so that oil and gas companies can get ever greater subsidies, "investment" and "research" grants, and tax cuts with which to line their own pockets.

The really scary thing is, those same companies are powerful enough that they can convince the average citizen that the entire country hinges on a half-dozen billionaires becoming a handful of multi-billionaires off the tax dollars and fuel expenditures of those selfsame citizens.

[yes-justice.livejournal.com]

"Hi ho! Off we go."