Our Gain, Your Pain: You Get Market Forces, We Get Welfare

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Source: FT 2020

From the UK:

'Capitalism isn't really democracy,' - official

'There is such a thing as society,' PM says





Read more: http://www.ft2020.com/

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This fake edition of the Financial Times is being handed out in advance of the G20.

[Deja Q]

1. That PM wouldn't want to meet Margaret Thatcher...

[Demeter]

2. Scattershot Cynicism

Too bad it couldn't be directed to a specific goal...

[corruptmewithpower]

3. I'm for democracy! It has it's critics, but most are long dead.

"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!"
Benjamin Franklin

"Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself."
John Adams

A good politician under democracy is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
H. L. Mencken

The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the party that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.
Lord Acton

“A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.”
Thomas Jefferson