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By nlscb (Mon Mar 10, 2008 at 11:40:29 AM EST) Thatcher, England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland (all tags)
Given the declining health of Margaret Thatcher, it is time to admire the fruits of the labor of the greatest woman born since the Virgin Mary who saved England and its territories of Scotland, Wales, and Ireland from the specter of socialism and transformed England into the world's most advanced economy, free of unionized tyranny of manufacturing and fully immersed the 21st century service economy.


England, once derisively referred to as the 51st state, the sick man of Europe, or America's unsinkable aircraft carrier, has risen to the proud status of becoming Europe's Manhattan - the unquestioned cultural and financial center of the EU and possibly the planet. 



England leads the world in financial services, while quietly providing the biggest innovations in culture and entertainment in recent years. All one has to do is look at the Canary Wharf or Paul Greengrasses' Bourne Ultimatum to see this dominance. 


All of this has allowed England to become the world's most exclusive place to live.  By not taxing foreigner's off shore earnings, it gathers the benefits of rich through property taxes.  And, in spite of Maggies' one flaw of not embracing the EU, allows it to expel its less desirable classes to Northern France, while embracing hard working Eastern European immigrants.  

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