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Friday, August 27, 2010

Two good sentences

From Economix (Was the Alaska Purchase a Good Deal?)

The West, that is from Oklahoma on up to Alaska, was settled with a large and expensive boost from the federal government, subsidies that often continue to this day. All of which complicates the Western (and Alaskan) self-idealization of themselves as craggy and libertarian individualists.