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		brazzy on May 5, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Zombies once destroyed Japan's economy, now they'r... > The role of government should be to provide for the less fortunate (but only where they are in that situation for reasons out of their control) The "deserving poor", really? Are we back in the 19th century now?

eli_gottlieb on May 5, 2014 [–]

Politically? Yes, we seem to have gone right back to the 19th century around when the banks crashed and kicked off the Great Recession.

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