4 Quotes by Matt Taibbi about country

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    America is a country that has been skating for ages on its unparalleled ability to look marvelous on the outside.

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    One loves one's country the way one loves a family member. And sometimes that family member does really embarrassing, shitty things. But you still love them.

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    In other countries they have histories with revolutions and class movements. In America, people don't like to think of themselves like being in a lower class. They all like to think of themselves as potential millionaires.

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    We paid for this instead of a generation of health insurance, or an alternative energy grid, or a brand-new system of roads and highways. With the $13-plus trillion we are estimated to ultimately spend on the bailouts, we could not only have bought and paid off every single sub-prime mortgage in the country (that would only have cost $1.4 trillion), we could have paid off every remaining mortgage of any kind in this country - and still have had enough money left over to buy a new house for every American who does not already have one.

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