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Xi gets it:

S.L. Kanthan @Kanthan2030

“Don’t take it the wrong way. You guys seem smart, but you keep funding utterly dumb and clownish politicians in your country. What’s up with that? In China, Tom Cotton wouldn’t even be a village chief.”

— President Xi Jinping while meeting with US corporate leaders in Beijing

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CHS is mostly correct. And it's not just America. I listened to a radio discussion yesterday about French finances that pretty much echoed this. The French have woken up this week to discover that their national debt has jumped enormously in the last few years. The panel of "experts" in the discussion made no mention of any of the leading causes such as France's insane Covid policies which shut down the economy for two years, its immense expenditure on Ukraine, its bloated civil service (one of the biggest on Earth), its excessive cradle-to-grave welfare state, or its employment destroying labour laws. Instead I heard the usual platitudes about taxing the rich and "excess" profits. In short, here in Europe too we have the same total divorce from reality and a complete lack of critical thinking. This can only end in disaster.

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