Blog Credo

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Saturday, July 2, 2011

Everything Old Is New Again

"No one ever listens..."

I'm still slogging through Lords of Finance.  I just got to the part - in 1931 - where all the European countries decided they should force austerity measures on the struggling economies of Germany, Austria and England.

Can I just say that being a history teacher is a despair inducing job, since no one seems to learn anything from us?

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