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I think you'll find that support for the IRA went a little beyond putting check in the mail.....like supply both the arms and the training facilities for them and so forth.
But you are correct, the system exploited the very tenents of the 'Free World'.
Now where do we stand on believing all of that? If you do then, retrospectively you were suckered, although I do think that they were adding detail to events as opposed to outright fabrication of all of them.
If we do not then the who do you believe? The Government? Do you think that the 'truth' they put out is anymore 'real' or correct. Afterall few in the US adminstration would have really been too proud of actions in Latin America and been honest about what was happening there.....
I find tabs' response interesting...especially in the light of his building problems. Free market economy, low taxes etc all good stuff, but when you do rely on Public Servants (Building Inspectors) then there are not enough and instead you spend more on Lawyers and litigation.
Either way you are out of pocket to a greater extent.
Now he has the resources to retrospectively defend his interests, both financially and mentally which is to his advantage.
Taking a more Left leaning view, would he have spent more or less if a greater number of better building inspectors, tax funded, had been avaliable to ensure that these defects were picked up in the first place?
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