Our economic woes: Doing it to ourselves
The essence of Greek tragedy is that the hero does it to himself.
King Creon destroys his family through his stubborn insistence on
punishing Antigone. Oedipus was, well, blind to his own quick temper,
and if he hadn't killed that guy he met on the road, things might have
turned out differently.
At this point, it's hard to argue that the state's fiscal problems
were not self-inflicted. Yes, we're in an ec ...
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