THIS USED TO BE THE ECONOMISTS' FREE RIDER STORY

DeGucht:

"You cannot be one of the biggest economies in the world and a free rider at the same time."

Now, for the butt ugly truth, 'the judgment of history':

Never, in the field of human conflict, has so much been given away to so many, by so few, for so little, so quickly.

The Dog's Breakfast at the Nairobi Free Market