maineman #16: Take your pick. If you choose to blame the private sector, the solution is a stronger state bureaucracy to micromanage it. If you choose to blame the existing state bureaucracy, the solution is a different and “better” state bureaucracy.

Armeggedon Rex #19: If “Fwance” falls, what would replace it? I for one would take the Fifth Republic as it is today, warts, irritants and all, over the Islamic supremacist emirate that is most likely to replace it, not to mention inherit 5R’s nukes when it does.