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Public Transportation and Smart Growth

BlueStreak

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4. Interesting use of the word "persuade"

Reply to Lydia Leftcoast (Reply #3)

Thu Jan 16, 2014, 12:22 PM

Jan 2014

I haven't heard it used that way since The Sopranos went off the air.

But seriously, Singapore is an interesting example. It is not a democracy, but is not a totalitarian regime in the same sense that China is. People in Singapore seem pretty happy with their system. Everything is clean. Everybody is employed. Everything works. Everybody has health care. Everybody has retirement savings.

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