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- ukit0
So what's the best way to cut the deficit?
- Well, the obvious problem is the poor people have it too good in this country.TheBlueOne
- how about have Govt create its own interest free money rather than borrowbliznutty
- Where do you think the banks get their money from? They borrow from the Fed at low interest rates.TheBlueOne
- ukit0
How come BP gets the blame for the oil spill, Bush gets blamed by some, Obama gets blamed, but Bobby Jindal escapes any kind of responsibility?
He's governor of the state isn't he? Where was he when BP was drilling their deep water well with law safety?
- georgesIII0
They were even given medals,
- TheBlueOne0
Utterly fascinating article about the role of Japanese organized crime (The Yakuza) in that countries post WW2-Present politics and financial system. It's often been said over the 20th century that whatever the future, Japan got there first, and I think this might be true. As we see the takover of American politics by corporations, as Mexico & Brazil devolve in their own ways into narcostates (or narcostates enclaves) this read of how crime operates within the halls of legitimate state power from Japan might show us a little bit of how the future is about to play out.
- <- link is a PDF by the wayTheBlueOne
- this mean you'll be leaving for Japan soon?PonyBoy
- I'll have to brush up some "connections" first it seemsTheBlueOne
- Jake Adelstein is a great writer.DrBombay
- See post cold war Russia as modern example of post ww2 japan.zenmasterfoo
- I don;t see that zen...TheBlueOne
- TheBlueOne0
"So I have one simple question: when do the politicians intend to let the public know about the fate that awaits them? The longer they put it off, the nastier the reaction, the bigger the strikes and the greater the chance that governments will fall. Don't say you weren't warned."
- ukit0
^I'm running out of sympathy for the afore mentioned lower middle class pensioners.
The ultra rich, at the end of the day, represent a tiny minority of society, hardly enough to get their policies passed on their own. If the middle class are so goddamn determined to help them out and vote in right-wing politicians who will promptly take their tax money and use it to slash their benefits, well fack...so be it.
I'll do my part to prevent it from happening, but at the end of the day, I'm one of the people who will probably be able to afford to retire on my own savings. Really, it's the working poor that should be rising up en masse to purge the government of every last corporatist sympathizer, instead they are somehow convinced liberals are the source of all their problems. Time to let people discover on their own.
- your interests seem oddly opposed to each other.zenmasterfoo
- How so? I'm just saying, conservative policies will hit those 60k/ yr working families a lot harder than someone like meukit
- me who makes a little more and has some savings. And they have the ability to stop it if they wanted.ukit
- BonSeff0
i think sharron angle is the biggest ignorant cunt in the history of cunts
- +1 BillionRamanisky2
- Bachman and Palin are right up there with her.DCDesigns
- TheBlueOne0
“...many of the well-to-do are purposely dumping their financially draining properties, just as they would any sour investment.
“The rich are different: they are more ruthless,” said Sam Khater, CoreLogic’s senior economist.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/0…
I have no comment.
- joeth0
Kerry's climate bill would cut deficit by $19b
- you believe that shit? What is wrong with you.********
- O you live in Denver. Fail.********
- Kerry's bill is so full of pork it makes bacon look lean. You're delusional to think he works in your interests.zenmasterfoo
- you believe that shit? What is wrong with you.
- Ramanisky20
wait for the last question & answer ... wow
- luckyorphan0
Good to see you back, Fred.
Though, it's sad to see you're not interested in a dialogue. I did my best to get some reasoned thought and discourse out of you. But instead it appears you're more interested in race-baiting, innuendo, conspiracies and generally doing whatever it takes to drag the overall tone of this thread down into the gutter...where Glenn Beck, Limbaugh and JazX prefer it most.
From now on, please keep your failures of analysis to yourself.
- Ramanisky20
I just got accepted to BeckU .. oh man I'm so excited
http://www.glennbeck.com/content…
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- luckyorphan0
For the GOP, a risky wave to ride or turn back
by Michael Gerson
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp…"Our Founding Fathers," says Nevada Republican Senate candidate Sharron Angle, "they put that Second Amendment in there for a good reason, and that was for the people to protect themselves against a tyrannical government. And in fact, Thomas Jefferson said it's good for a country to have a revolution every 20 years. I hope that's not where we're going, but you know, if this Congress keeps going the way it is, people are really looking toward those Second Amendment remedies."
Angle has managed to embrace the one Founding Father with a disturbing tolerance for the political violence of the French Revolution. "Rather than it should have failed," enthused Jefferson, "I would have seen half the earth desolated." Hardly a conservative model.
But mainstream conservatives have been strangely disoriented by Tea Party excess, unable to distinguish the injudicious from the outrageous. Some rose to Angle's defense or attacked her critics. Just to be clear: A Republican Senate candidate has identified the United States Congress with tyranny and contemplated the recourse to political violence. This is disqualifying for public office. It lacks, of course, the seriousness of genuine sedition. It is the conservative equivalent of the Che Guevara T-shirt -- a fashion, a gesture, a toying with ideas the wearer only dimly comprehends. The rhetoric of "Second Amendment remedies" is a light-weight Lexington, a cut-rate Concord. It is so far from the moral weightiness of the Founders that it mocks their memory.
- "It is the conservative equivalent of the Che Guevara T-shirt." I like that.TheBlueOne
- Yes—nice line.luckyorphan
- BonSeff0
that narcissistic bitch was comparing herself to abraham lincoln the other day. in fucking credible.
- DrBombay0
For all the people who want to lockdown the mexican border, sign up for this: http://www.takeourjobs.org/
- drgz0
Political elite of on the verge of bankruptcy state Ohio
http://www.dailymotion.com/video…
