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Quote from Mark Steyn,

"In 1897, troops from the greatest empire the world had ever seen marched down London’s mall for Queen Victoria’s diamond jubilee. Seventy years later, Britain had government health care, a government-owned car industry, massive government housing, and it was a shriveled high-unemployment socialist basket-case living off the dwindling cultural capital of its glorious past. In 1945, America emerged from the Second World War as the preeminent power on earth. Seventy years later . . . Let’s not go there."



By:

Mark Steyn (more quotes by Mark Steyn or books by/about Mark Steyn)


(1959-) Canadian columnist

Source:

National Review Online, Feb 14, 2009
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/226898/obamateur-hour/mark-steyn

Categories:

Prosperity, Socialism

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