Columnist to U.S.: ‘Welcome to the Third World’
Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 09.18.08 | 10:25 AM ET
Writes Rosa Brooks in today’s Los Angeles Times: “It’s not every day that a superpower makes a bid to transform itself into a Third World nation, and we here at the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund want to be among the first to welcome you to the community of states in desperate need of international economic assistance.” Uh, thanks?
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* A Journey Into ‘The Second World’
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Ling 09.19.08 | 2:23 AM ET
I can already see the history books with chapters on the failure of Capitalism and the now-obsolete free market economy.