In These Times

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• • 01 Nov 07
  • 5:04 pm

  Why don't we just read the handwriting on the walls, buy ourselves some guns and gosh darn blow away all those poor, hungry, tired immigrants and low lives... it's the NEO AMERICAN way isn't it, so wave the red,white and blue and blast away.... and BY GEORGE, be proud to be an American... a one stop shop for global atrocities that starts right here at home. Feeding the hungry is about feeding the hungry - don't like the trash they leave behind: CLEAN IT UP. Don't like the thievery involved with the programs? Take THEM to court. Don't like the government …

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• • 15 Jun 06
  • 1:45 pm

  Those individuals who did abuse the system (since the 1950's actually) and filed repeatedly for "bogus" bankruptcy - were in the top income percentages across the board (all states). Interesting, THIS group of repetetive filers were the ONLY group actively sought out by credit card companies to reissue cards. The ordinary person encounters not only great social stigma for filing bankruptcy but also housing discrimination. In the low to median income housing markets, a bankrutpcy filing disqualifies a person out of hand. The wealthy person or corporation filing bankruptcy experiences zero social stigma, it is considered an acceptable financial mechanism, sort …

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• • 19 Jun 06
  • 11:34 am

  The final report of the Council on Foreign Relations portends a grim blueprint for the 21st century: grim, that is, for "We the People" but ensures the moneyed power elite finally have attained their "promised land". From what I have been following, a destructive bankruptcy law - destructive in that it is in place to ensure an average person's financial decline is a permanent one - will create a population of "the desperate and needy". The wretched bankrupcty law is just one of a well-thought out series of nails-in-the-coffin to ensure the removal of any semblance of a class other than …

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• • 20 Jun 06
  • 11:56 am

  Do I give the greedy too much credit? No, IMO I give them too little credit for the Machiavellian reality they repeatedly create. It is quite masterful, the reason why there are so few whistleblowers on all this, is the most masterful of all. If I had a penny for every banking executive who said "Anna this is so *criminally* wrong, but I have a family at home... and these people have more 'money than god..." I'd be quite wealthy. Eventually we've all become their enablers of those in the power-elite who are indeed criminally "over the top". I have eyes …

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