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by Gary E. Andrews - 10/07/26 11:11 PM
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by Rob B. - 10/04/26 02:16 PM
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So Brian, it's OK to have another Great Depression as long as we maintain our oh-so-holy Capitalist values, right? Hundreds of thousands committing suicide or starving to death and a quarter of the country unemployed is OK, with less than 5% of the remainder controlling nearly all of the wealth, because THE FREE MARKET SOLVES EVERYTHING! Right? People are beginning to speculate that the current financial crisis is so bad that our entire monetary system will collapse - in other words, the dollar will no longer have any value. Money markets have already started to have negative returns which is nearly unprecedented. The last time that happened was, you guessed it, in the Great Depression. The country of Iceland is bankrupt and needed a loan from Russia to not collapse.
This is NOT the time to be saying "Let's do nothing and let the free market sort it out." There isn't going to BE a market unless we have some serious government intervention.
And here you have John McCain saying we need to give the richest of the rich over $300 billion dollars back. I don't give a damn about Obama and Ayers compared to that. It makes me want to vomit. Obama is NOT going to start somehow mandating that our kids somehow become terrorists or radicals. That's absurd. He has shown nothing in any of his policies and plans that would indicate he is going to do that. Absolutely NOTHING.
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