Jail GOP Deadbeats for Debt Crisis It's Not Default of Obama:s

[KoKo]

(BTW ...I'm watchin some Great Series of Dickens on Netflix these days. That Man had it all Down about what we were dealing with. AHEAD OF HIS TIME...Charles Dickens and ...a Good Watch to know what we are going through these days is what "others" have gone through before us. Charles Dickens and Mini-Series produced by the BBC is a close to what we POPULIST DEMOCRATS can come to for Literature that Speaks to Our OWN MINDS ..these DAYS.

It's SUMMER and if you have "Instant Watch on Netflix" as a subscriber...try to watch "Little Dorrit." It's not the Usual Dickens...it has a TWIST.

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by Greg Palast
exclusive for Truthout/Buzzflash.com

Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist gave debtors' prison a bad rap. Too bad. I'd say that locking away GOP Majority Leader Eric Cantor in a penitentiary for deadbeats seems like a darn good idea.
Bush reads from My Pet Budget

Let's talk about how we ended up in this pickle, bucking up against the "debt ceiling." From 2001 to 2008, a Republican President took an annual surplus of $86 billion left for him by Bill Clinton and ran up the budget deficit to over half a trillion a year ($642 billion in 2008). Altogether, George W. Bush blew up the national debt by over $3 TRILLION--then left the bills to Barack Obama.

For eight years, Bush spent like a drunk monkey. The world was the GOP's Bergdorf’s and they had our credit card. If there was a shiny new war on the shelf, they just had to have it: Iraq, Afghanistan, and let's not forget the Fantasy Wars, the half a trillion dollars a year on fancy-ass weapons for a war that won't happen. (Example: the Virginia Class submarine. The V-class was designed to attack Soviet subs. There are no more Soviet subs, but Bush ordered three dozen anyway--at $1.8 billion each.)


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[LaydeeBug]

1. unrecs out in full force over hatred of that rotten fucktard opposition. Funny that. nt

[KoKo]

3. It's kind of strange they would trash Charles Dickens post...but...I guess

something about Debtor's Prisons struck a cord with them. :eyes:

[KoKo]

2. yeah...I don't know it's a Weekend Movie Watch..Summer and Many DU'ers in distress...but

Post doesn't even get responses...because of WHAT?

Thank you for your REPLY...you are a TROOPER to come out and answer my post..

[KoKo]

4. Oh Well...if there are any folks here in this forum who know who Charles Dickens was...

..and you have a Netflix account or even have a fading Blockbuster near you... Those old Dickens movies are a treat...because they remind me (or maybe, even you) in some way of the times we are living through these days.

Whatever...but, just remember, it's SUMMER VACATION...and we used to have to do "extra reading and such to enrich our minds" years ago...when the Schools and Teachers really cared about "Enriching our Brains" rather than "Teaching to the Test."