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New Orleans flooded because funds for repairing the levees was diverted to saving Iraq from the Iraquis.

The saying was that the Foreign Office hired the best and brightest, which then proceeded to ignore the main problems and concentrate on keeping their unemployable chums in soft jobs.

Britain IS bankrupt. North Sea oil has hidden that fact for the last twenty years. Most of the new employment for the last ten years has been State hiring, for such jobs as `teaching grannies how to put on their slippers` (an actual job, according to reports), and the improvement in public finances can be put down to bookeeping kludges. ((Public-Private Partnerships ) rather than (Borrowing)).. I know from travelling in the UK for the last few years, EVERYONE blames the EU for every problem.. They are living in Cloud Cuckoo Land, all the old products are gone, deservedly, and anything that is progressing is mainly EU. Germany is recovering rapidly, as is France. Problems with minorities are a world problem, Germany's cure in the early 1940's can not be recommended.

The government CANNOT do real work, what it can do, and what it should keep at, is things like police, army, and basic education.

Basic problem with any government, which is why they should keep to basic jobs, as above. Bit of public relations is good too.

-- greymaus