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WHAT WILL our “new normal” look like? To inform our debate, our “thoughts” this month will feature quotes from iconoclasts who want to see freedom, equality and justice for the many. Perhaps we need to look back at the Very Old Normal. As we have just learned, spending priorities can change very quickly if you have the political will.
“If we can find the money to kill people, we can find the money to help people.” [Speaking about the support for the welfare state which was created in the UK after the Second World War] “If you can have full employment by killing Germans, why can’t we have full employment by building hospitals, building schools?”
Tony Benn, speaking in Sicko, Michael Moore’s documentary film about the health industry in the US
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