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Old 03-03-10, 05:52 AM   #4
Schroeder
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Originally Posted by bookworm_020 View Post

Now if only our idiots in power could make some useful long term decisions that would benifit the country.
And that is exactly the problem. Those long term decision should have been taken 20 to 30 years ago. Now it is pretty much too late. We are getting strangulated by our interest payments and now any decision made to get us out of this mess is one with major impact on daily live of everyone. That is not going to happen in a democracy because every party/politician is reluctant of doing things that will cost them the next election.... and it would cost them the election because people are stupid and do only think in short terms and start to protest if they have to give a bigger share.
But the bottle is empty. I can only give water to someone if I have a full bottle! It is high time to cut unnecessary costs (whatever this would be) and try to consolidate this mess but we rather stick our head in the sand for the next decade or to and blame everything then on the previous governments.
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