Sewers Are Socialism! Unless … || Paul Krugman

Paul Krugman’s Conservatives and Sewers:

… we don’t know about Republicans, but we do know what The Economist said, ( a 631 KB PDF file ) in 1848, about proposals for a London sewer system:

Suffering and evil are nature’s admonitions; they cannot be got rid of; and the impatient efforts of benevolence to banish them from the world by legislation, before benevolence has learned their object and their end, have always been more productive of evil than good.

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It wasn’t until the Great Stink made the Houses of Parliament uninhabitable that the sewer system was created.

And The Economist seems to be the Holy Grail of wisdom for ignoramus journalists in Portugal.