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malthaussen

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4. Look, it's damage control.

Fri Aug 22, 2014, 12:21 PM

Aug 2014

Can't oblige you with a pep talk. The country is in damage-control mode. There is nothing glamorous or exciting or cheerful about cleaning up messes. Cleaning up, did I say? Rather, keeping the rate at which they expand down. Repairing infrastructure, whether physical or moral, is never going to give a sense of progress or accomplishment. You do it because it has to be done. Or you give up and let the people with the agenda ram it right down your throat.

-- Mal

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