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[quote=TheManWithAUsername][quote=Anonymous]Greece has overly generous union rules for public employees, overly generous pension requirements and a population that expects to work a short work week while being guaranteed a job for life.[/quote]
You said that universal health care and stronger banking regulation, not these other things, would cause marching in our streets. I take it you've now abandoned that?

[quote=Anonymous]we'll be in the same situation as Greece -- a nation unable to "afford" the benefits it has promised its citizens because the rich, on whom the system relied too heavily to pay taxes, left the country.[/quote]
That's why during the later 2/3 of the 20th century, when our tax system was more progressive, all of our rich left to various third-world paradises, and we now have none left. That's why every country with a single-payer system is collapsing like Greece.

[quote=Anonymous]None of this (over promising entitlements) would be solved by banking regulation.[/quote]
You're the one inexplicably associating them. I said that effective regulation would have prevented the crisis. No crisis, no bailout, no TP or OWS.[/quote]

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