NP - And Greece created Europe: the cultural legacy of a nation in crisis

[Ian Livingston]

>  In the US
> rich states routine subsidize poor states through Federal taxes, and
> no one feels abused.

Um, perhaps I've missed something in the current political dialog. I
get the impression everyone feels abused, especially the wealthy--and
a few impoverished do-nothings who don't want to work (according to
those wealthy.) I think it's only the states, as states, that do not
feel abused, because states, after all, have no nervous systems
except, perhaps, in a metaphorical sense.

On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 6:44 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 10:14 PM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> The thing is there is no option of "fixing" this mess. A large transition is overdue and inevitable..Why be afraid of letting the big banks die? The sooner people face the future without dragon lairs in their dreams the better.
>
> Well, it's the Euro that's at stake here more than some big banks.
> And if Europe's economy tail-dives, the rest of the world will also be
> hurt.  The problem in Yurp is political at its base:  Yurp wanted a
> common currenct,butisn't willing to act for a common good.
>



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"Less than any man have I  excuse for prejudice; and I feel for all
creeds the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the
trust in reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments
of darkness groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates
than the simplest urchin in the streets." -- Will Durant