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meganmcardle.theatlantic.com - 3/13/2009
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Henry Farrell argues that the worries that national healthcare will turn the United States into France are overblown: . . . the claim that America is going to become 'France' 2 if
we're not very careful doesn't really hold up. If this kind of change
were likely, then the US would no longer have ...
crookedtimber.org - 3/11/2009
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Two recent versions of the same argument. First,
the simplified 800 word version , from Roger Cohen....
To paraphrase Mauriac, I love France, but I don’t want there to be two of them, least of all if one is in the United States. … I ...
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michelgurfinkiel.com - 3/18/2009
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PAR Michel Gurfinkiel . For about fifty years,
from the Charles de Gaulle presidency (1959-1969) to the...
Jacques Chirac one (1995-2007), France s policies in the Middle East were shaped primarily by nationalistic grand strategic factors : hostility ...
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Special Report/ The Gaza War and the rise of the Neo-French
business.theatlantic.com - 3/13/2009
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business.theatlantic.com —
Henry Farrell argues that the worries that national
healthcare will turn the United States into France are...
overblown: . . . the claim that America is going to become 'France' 2 if we're not very careful doesn't really hold up. If this kind of ...
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The US is not France - The Atlantic Business Channel
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Our French Future?
Ross Douthat —
Via Megan, Henry Farrell scoffs at the kind of "don't let America turn into France" anxieties gestured at in my previous post: There is something very, very strange in my eyes about this kind of
argument. On the one hand. a notion of a healthy American culture of
can-do entrepreneurialism, which has survived for centuries and caused
America to prosper. On the other, the claim that the combination of
broader-if-not-quite-universal healthcare, a slightly easier time for
unions, and a return to the relatively mild form of progressive
taxation we ...
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