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Sunday, September 21, 2008

An Electorate Informed With Relevant Facts

Well, at least we can be sure that if one of the two major party candidates for President had previously been implicated in a national scandal in which concerned government regulators were shown to have been pressured to back off from policing a bank that was taking criminally reckless risks with investor assets leading to unprecedented disaster and finally to a total taxpayer-funded government bailout, well, certainly that would be something on everybody's lips. That could only be true, surely, especially if this were just six weeks before an election taking place as sweeping financial failures brought on by similar recklessness and corruption were inspiring calls for a historically unprecedented taxpayer bailout of the irresponsible major players involved in the form of a blank check to the tune of over a trillion dollars, a bailout that addresses few of the actual structural problems at hand, punishes none of the responsible and fraudulently enriched culprits involved, and essentially kidnaps the nation as a whole for a ruinous generation of austerity at a moment when that nation's law-abiding already-suffering everyday citizens need renewal and rebuilding else we all sink permanently into a backwater cesspool riven with class warfare and religious tensions...

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