This is What a FAKE DeMOCKracy Looks Like!

'Both mainstream Democratic and Republican parties are working furiously behind the scenes to co-opt the Wall Street protests.But as the Associated Press notes, the protesters are fed up with both mainstream parties, as are most of the American people.'

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The Meaning of “Austerity”

'“Austerity” is one of those Orwellian terms that has been injected into our political discourse precisely because it is a nice-sounding word for a very painful reality. “Austerity” implies discipline, self-restraint, even nobility. “Austerity” is prudent. “Austerity” is modest. “Austerity” is a virtue. It is an end in itself.

If the IMF or the European Central Bank come to the people of a collapsing European nation and tell them to sacrifice their pensions and their savings and their very standard of living all for a debt that their government has fraudulently racked up in their name, no one would go for it, and rightly so.'

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