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Overheard in the cloakroom...
"So tell me, Your Excellency, how could the Americans have been so distracted, foolish and incompetent to have allowed this situation to have developed over the last decade?"
"My friend, their decline began much earlier than that, a generation earlier. They allowed into power a governmental philosophy that confused the prosperity of their capitalist class for the economic health of their nation. They forgot that the former should be a consequence of the latter, not the other way round."