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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: tejek who wrote (414141)6/12/2003 11:42:44 AM
From: DavesM  Read Replies (1) of 769670
 
re: "the Amer. public is acting like sheep unlike their Brit. counterparts."

Well, I don't want to knock the British too much, but...

After Churchill led the British through WWII, the British rewarded him, by voting him out of office - and began a 40 year experiment with Socialism.

The early in the Post War period (1950), the British had, the second highest per capita GDP in Europe (behind the neutrals, Switzerland and in front of Sweden). By 1979, per Capita GDP in the UK slipped to 10th in Europe.
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