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Minstrel Boy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-02-05 09:24 AM
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Intentionally crashing the system
Some of us have been saying for sometime that this is the big picture. Paul Krugman has written this is the only explanation for their economics: bankrupt the state so the only option is the eradication of the remnants of Roosevelt's New Deal, and it's replacement by a neo-feudalism.

Their policy is not only economic. They are deliberately creating a ruin of the United States to eliminate options, to further their vision of a despotic, supersized, Third World Empire.
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seemslikeadream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-02-05 09:28 AM
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1. Exibite A
Chimpy FIRED Flood Control Expert in 2002 Who Warned of Impact
March 7, 2002: "The assistant secretary of the Army, Mississippi's former U.S. Rep. Mike Parker, was forced out Wednesday after he criticized the Bush administration's proposed spending cuts on Army Corps of Engineers' water projects, members of Congress said.
"Apparently he was asked to resign," said U.S. Rep. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., a member of the House Appropriations Committee's energy and water development subcommittee that oversees the corps' budget.
...Parker earned the ire of administration officials when he questioned Bush's planned budget cuts for the corps, including two controversial Mississippi projects.
"I think he was fired for being too honest and not loyal enough to the president," said lobbyist Colin Bell, who represents communities with corps-funded projects.
Bell said Parker resigned about noon after being given about 30 minutes to choose between resigning or being fired. "

http://orig.clarionledger.com/news/0203/07/m05.html

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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-02-05 09:30 AM
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2. They want to privatize disaster relief... Blackwater is involved already

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Save New Orleans, then save this country!
http://timeforachange.bluelemur.com/electionreform.htm
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Minstrel Boy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-02-05 09:36 AM
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3. Did I hear right
that next time they mean to give the job to faith-based charities?
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Just Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-02-05 09:43 AM
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4. They've been imposing economic oppression/exploitation,...
,...on smaller countries for decades. Now, they are doing exactly the same thing to their own country: bankrupting it and forcing its people into poverty.

They are enemies to their own country,...domestic enemies. Who's going to protect us from them? :shrug:
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Minstrel Boy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-02-05 09:47 AM
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5. "They are enemies to their own country"
Exactly. It's madness until you realize their loyalties are not to their nation or their people.
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wli Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-02-05 10:36 AM
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6. directly under the heel of IMF debt slavery n/t
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