{"id":1350,"date":"2008-10-10T18:18:51","date_gmt":"2008-10-10T16:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.zeit.de\/joerglau\/2008\/10\/10\/die-usa-eine-bananenrepublik_1350"},"modified":"2008-10-10T18:18:51","modified_gmt":"2008-10-10T16:18:51","slug":"die-usa-eine-bananenrepublik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.zeit.de\/joerglau\/2008\/10\/10\/die-usa-eine-bananenrepublik_1350","title":{"rendered":"Die USA &#8211; eine Bananenrepublik"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christopher Hitchens <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/politics\/features\/2008\/10\/hitchens200810\">glaubt<\/a>, es sei schon so weit:<\/p>\n<p><em>I hope you read the findings of the Department of Transportation and the Federal Highway Administration that followed the plunge of Interstate 35W in Minneapolis into the Mississippi River last August. Sixteen states, after inspecting their own bridges, were compelled to close some, lower the weight limits of others, and make emergency repairs. Of the nation\u2019s 600,000 bridges, 12 percent were found to be structurally deficient. This is an almost perfect metaphor for Third World conditions: a money class fleeces the banking system while the very trunk of the national tree is permitted to rot and crash.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.zeit.de\/joerglau\/files\/2008\/10\/poar01_hitchens0810.jpg\" title=\"poar01_hitchens0810.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.zeit.de\/joerglau\/files\/2008\/10\/poar01_hitchens0810.jpg\" alt=\"poar01_hitchens0810.jpg\" height=\"326\" width=\"415\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christopher Hitchens glaubt, es sei schon so weit: I hope you read the findings of the Department of Transportation and the Federal Highway Administration that followed the plunge of Interstate 35W in Minneapolis into the Mississippi River last August. 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