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Breezie. What is it that you want? Do you want a complete collapse of the U.S. economy? Do you look forward to everyone being thrown on the street, no food, no water, and everyone armed with guns, reversion back to the wild wild west in which needs/wants are satisfied the ones with the bigger guns….It’s not a question of whether or not government throwing more money is risky or not. Everything has risk. Guess what, this is the almost like General Custard’s last stand. It’s the Hail Mary, or whatever your faith calls it. Obama and this administration just traded off our future generations by how much we’re going to spend. We’re going to be spending more money on bank bailouts. You think there are better alternatives?
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Ah, the old false choice. Either we give all of our monies to the financial oligarchy or we all live in decrepit poverty the rest of our lives.

How about this choice: We throw every member of the financial oligarchy in jail, take their ill-gotten money, and distribute it to the rest of the population and use it to pay down debt. Why is that not a viable option? In your warped world-view everyhing that everyone has comes from that magnificent top 1% of wealth holders. In reality, the top 1% has stolen their money from everyone else.
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Breezhnev: Boy, that moniker I hung on you is becoming more and more apropos by the day. So, using your suggestion above, we become fascists and seize all the holdings and assets of the banks and distribute them to the people (via the State with a big “S”, of course). Do I have that right? Statist authoritarianism, huh? And you’re calling me a socialist?

By the way, I am no longer in insurance. I used to be back in my corporate days. I now own a major piece of a blast engineering company. I don’t know where you come down on protection from industrial blast and anti-terrorism/Force Protection, but you probably feel that I’m oppressing the Third World somehow in that role.