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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: tejek who wrote (332710)4/11/2007 4:58:23 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (2) of 1573095
 
You say "the French war was draining the French treasury" and then say "the problem had little to do with the size of the gov't." But war is a government activity.

Also it wasn't just the war. The French king and his court controlled to much of the wealth of the country, and the king dominated the government. He lived high because he took from others, not because he was creating wealth.
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