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What Alexis Tsipras Pledged Wasn’t in His Power to Deliver
WSJ ^ | 18 June 2015 | S. Fidler

Posted on 06/20/2015 9:54:14 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT

Domingo Tortorelli promised the Uruguayan people the earth: a milk fountain at every street corner, a working day of no longer than 15 minutes and a fuel-saving road from the capital Montevideo to Rivera, more than 300 miles away, that would slope downhill in both directions.

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TOPICS: History; Humor
KEYWORDS: 201501; alexistsipras; domingotortorelli; europeanunion; greece; grexit; montevideo; nato; promises; rivera; syriza; unachievable; uruguay
“Men are so naive, and so much dominated by immediate needs, that a skillful deceiver always finds plenty of people who will let themselves be deceived,” observed Niccolò Machiavelli
1 posted on 06/20/2015 9:54:14 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Why is it that people today are so naive about human nature?

I have a suggestion.

Let’s send some 3-Card-Monte con men to every grade school.

“It’s the Old Army Game! Come on kids! Try your luck!”

Take their allowance and lunch money from them. They’ll be hungry, but maybe they’ll stop voting Democrat.


2 posted on 06/20/2015 10:06:48 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Hope and change. Obama gonna pay my gasoline; Obama gonna give me a new kitchen; Obama gonna pay my bills out of his stash. Hope and change.


3 posted on 06/20/2015 11:23:57 AM PDT by SharpRightTurn (White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
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