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Thomas Friedman to America: “We can’t learn anything from China”

By Mark | September 13, 2011

Generally speaking, I don’t consider myself a huge Thomas Friedman fan. I caught a minute of him speaking on MSNBC this morning, though, and what he said really blew me away. It was extremely simple, but packed a wallop. As I can’t find the exact quote anywhere online, here’s the essence of what he said… […]

Posted in History, Media, Politics | Also tagged 2010 census, 2012 Presidential election, Bush tax cuts, census data, China, deregulation, education reform, immigration, infrastructure, Joe Scarborough, Michael Bloomberg, Michele Bachmann, minimum wage, poverty, tax the rich, the plight of the overtaxed rich, Thomas Friedman, Trudi Renwick | 11 Comments

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