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It may be my bias, or my imagination, or my distaste for toil, but from here America looks like one big workhouse, “under God, indivisible, with time off to shit, shower and shop.” A country whose citizens have been reduced to “human assets” of a vast and relentless economic machine, moving human parts oiled by commodities and kept in motion by the edict, “produce or die.” Where employment and a job dominates all other aspects of life, and the loss of which spells the loss of everything. »

November 19th, 2009

The Republicans’ shameless cynicism was perfectly captured by Vice President Dick Cheney, who in 2002 proclaimed, “Reagan proved deficits don’t matter.” PERRspectives: Born Again Deficit Virgins

« When [John McCain] took “no responsibility for any of this” — when he was “asked by Katie Couric last week about our failures in Afghanistan” and then “spoke as if he were an innocent bystander”– why didn’t Ms. Couric rip his heart out of this chest?