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Demeter

(85,373 posts)
3. Trust but Verify--just don't ask how to verify!
Fri Mar 29, 2013, 10:46 AM
Mar 2013

If I had a mattress, I'd be stuffing it.

Since you can't trust the government, what with the active shredding of both the safety net and the Rule of Law, why would you expect to be able to trust the banks?

Trust...that's so 50's!

We are all living on a series of cliff edges...some of which we don't even know about. Yet. Until they crumble away beneath our trusting feet.


The whole point of a social group was mutual support...an extended family. Now, it's all about the benjamins: various forms of slavery and coercion so that the Might makes Right and the Right makes Policy.


We are a sad, sick shadow of our former national greatness.

I'm thinking Iceland. They might actually be having Spring, over there....

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