England
yesterday laid to rest former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher with pomp and
circumstances not seen since the Queen Mom’s funeral of 2002. Thatcher’s
detractors turned their backs to her passing coffin, held signs “Rest in
Shame,” and pushed the song “Ding Dong the Wicked Witch is Dead” to the top of
the charts.
Margaret Thatcher’s enemies will never forgive her for
breaking the unions’ stranglehold, for her support of budgetary discipline, her
privatization of England’s
decaying state companies, and for deregulation. Her detractors will not forgive
her alliance with Ronald Reagan against the USSR’s evil empire. They will not
forgive her support of the first war against Saddam Hussein.
Thatcher’s detractors will never concede that she reversed England’s fifty years decline as the “sick man
of Europe” and restored her country to the top
ranks of world economic powers.
go to forbes.com
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