This is a welcome departure from the rhetoric of poverty being created by individual fecklessness, to a worldview in which employers are creating those negative conditions.
They revealed mendacity, callousness and fecklessness at the level of generals and presidents, in the eyes of the government's own analysts.
Millions watch the Chinese Super League's matches on television, which often draw better ratings than basketball in the regions where they are broadcast (reportedly embarrassed by the fecklessness in football, national CCTV stopped airing league games in 2008).
In the German-dominated core they are fed up with paying for other countries' fecklessness and they fear that, as creditors, they will suffer if the European Central Bank (ECB) inflates away the laggards' debts.
Almost 815m citizens are eligible to cast their ballots in nine phases of voting over five weeks the largest collective democratic act in history.But who does not also deplore the fecklessness and venality of India's politicians?
On November 4th one of the most senior pro-Western rebel commanders in northern Syria resigned in frustration, citing divisions among fighting factions and the fecklessness of the national coalition as reasons, though he was one of the few leaders still acknowledging its role.
Yemenis have grown weary after four years of peace talks that have only convinced them of the fecklessness of their political class.
But among the keenest backers of homeland defence policy, the fecklessness of allies is yet another reason to put America's needs first.America has suffered less from terrorism at home than most rich countriesThat sentiment may grow if there is any fresh attempt by terrorists to attack targets on American soil.
Faced with opposition accusations that the government was meddling in the American campaign, the following day Mr Harper promised to investigate the leak, which he said had been "blatantly unfair" to Mr Obama.All this comes as Canada and Mexico are paying part of the price of the fecklessness of American financiers.
And if they win, the prime minister's fecklessness will in itself be solace.
For a pariah department with a reputation for financial fecklessness, that was a milestone.
