Washington Post (August 30)
2021/ 08/ 30 by jd in Global News
“Enormous as it is, the number of people evacuated by air from Kabul since the end of July — about 122,000 — is not large enough.” Countless others, who are vulnerable, did not escape. “This is a moral disaster.”
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Wall Street Journal (October 3)
2012/ 10/ 05 by jd in Global News
When the dust from all the debt crises settles, the “sure losers” are the young. “Virtually any political ‘solution’ on offer to the euro crisis or U.S. debt will essentially force people age zero to 35—jobs or no jobs—to spend their lifetimes paying off the rolled-over debt that bails out the politicians and guarantees benefit flows to the older half of the population, which will escape to worry-free graves before the crisis returns.”
