Urging a wholesale revamp of the welfare system based on greater self-reliance, it reads like a riposte to the Lafontaines' tome, and is no doubt meant to.

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As great forces of history converge to human scale, this modern-day boom town feels like the Wild West but without the confident self-reliance: the articulate residents are painfully aware of the close link between their sustenance and their misery, and international bureaucrats reveal a terrible disconnection from the reality on the ground as they encourage the unchecked development.

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There are plenty of Hispanics who rather like the message of the party on business, on self-reliance and on social issues.

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