Tuesday, February 03, 2009

Not That Bad

Matt Yglesias, on the strange American phenomenon of trailing other advanced nations in all sorts of infrastructure, technology and quality of life indicators, yet lead the world mostly in multi-millionaires getting bailed out by the federal government. There comes a point at which we cannot look ourselves in the mirror and honestly say we are one of the world's most advanced nations. Maybe we already there, and we just won't admit it.

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