http://www.republicoft.com/2009/09/21/second-acts/ Black. Gay. Father. Vegetarian. Buddhist. Liberal. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 02:47:01 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.republicoft.com/2009/09/21/second-acts/comment-page-1/#comment-206184 Bruce Thu, 24 Sep 2009 02:09:13 +0000 http://www.republicoft.com/2009/09/21/second-acts/#comment-206184 Peace, T. Fitzgerald's comment (through his novel's character IIRC) may be the single falsest thing ever written about the U.S. We are far, far more the land of the second chance than almost any other nation. Try failing in business once and than again in Germany or France; they remember bankruptcies onto the 10th generation in those unforgiving countries. In Sweden a bankrupt may not form a corporation; in the U.S. they do so all the time. Peace, T. Fitzgerald’s comment (through his novel’s character IIRC) may be the single falsest thing ever written about the U.S. We are far, far more the land of the second chance than almost any other nation. Try failing in business once and than again in Germany or France; they remember bankruptcies onto the 10th generation in those unforgiving countries. In Sweden a bankrupt may not form a corporation; in the U.S. they do so all the time.

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