Perhaps not remembering what John Maynard Keynes said a long time ago about the long term - that in the long term we are all dead - Republicans single strategy seems to be to cut Social Security and Medicare, let mass unemployment fester for the five to 10 years it typically takes to a country to recover from a financial crisis, and then pretend “we won't bail out too big to fail companies when they threaten systemic risk” as Jon Chait says. That, plus hoping for the best. For the long term.
- GOP wants middle class to pay for mistakes of the rich, Salon.com, AUGUST 11, 2011.
2. Tony Nicklinson began his fight for the right to die after he said he was “fed up” of living with locked-in syndrome.
The condition left him unable to speak or move and relying on a computer to communicate.
It was caused by a stroke in 2005 which he suffered while on a business trip to Athens and left him paralysed from the neck down.
Mr Nicklinson said he did not want to potentially live with the debilitating syndrome for another 20 years.
One of his daughter’s, Lauren, said the stroke had turned him from a “loud, active ex-rugby player” to “someone who’s wheelchair bound who watches telly all day”.
The father of two and former engineer said he wished the doctors in Greece had left him to die.
“If I had my time again, and knew then what I know now, I would have not called the ambulance but let nature take its course,” he said in 2010.
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