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May 13, 2008

AN INDIFFERENT leader, an impotent government. Wars draining precious manpower and economic resources. A population beset by taxes, high prices for food and fuel, loss of homes and jobs.

The United States in 2008?

No. France on the eve of the French Revolution in 1789.
ILENE J. BORNSTEIN, Reading

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