Yes, at midnight tonight it’s debt ceiling time again and the US Congress has been privileged to set such a limit since 1939. The limitation doesn’t mean more budget-busting spending, it means satisfying obligations the US government has already taken …
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"In Debt We Trust" (a Schechter documentary)
Our Serfdom of Debt and Oppression
by Jude Cowell
Well, Mr. Danny Schechter has done it again. He’s created an elucidating documentary In Debt We Trust (1 1/2 hours long) which begins in church and reminds me of Bush43 immediately after the attacks of 9/11/01 superficially advising the American people that our best response was to, "Go shopping."
No, consumerism is not a religion but it is a
RNC 8.29.12 Paul Ryan to speak tonight
And Yet They Go On Speaking Without Saying Anything…
by Jude Cowell
Let me be the nostalgic one this time…my Dad (b. 1908) had a favorite joke after watching political speeches on TV…What’s he sayin’? He ain’t sayin’…which for me sums up the narrow scope of the Mitt Romney 2012 campaign for president and the hidden cards Mitt is keeping guarded so close to his vest.
Therefore, there
Default Theater returns and the Eclipses of 2012
Reuters reports on the "fiscal cliff" that Washington ‘lawmakers’ are in process of setting up for January 1, 2013, a re-run of Summer 2011’s dramatic debt limit-default theater that caused the US credit rating to be downgraded thanks primarily to Tea Party members of Congress and those who bankroll them.
Yes, these are basically the same tax and budget matters left over from 2011, a summer with
President’s Weekly Address July 16, 2011 (video)
President Obama has one of his weekly ‘bully pulpit’ messages for us which spotlights US economic issues and the theatrical Default Stand-Off with his usual well-crafted, seemingly direct approach. Yes, yes, of course I agree that "we’re all in this together." It’s just that a select few are a lot more in than together with the rest of us.Such as the frisky elitist movers’n’shakers now frolicking
Debt Ceiling Deadline Aug 2 2011: Jupiter-Neptune active
Fighting War on China’s Dime: the August 2, 2011 Debt Ceiling Squeezeby Jude CowellWell, the speculator pair, Jupiter and Neptune, are activated by midpoint on August 2, 2011 which is the Obama-Geithner promoted deadline for raising the US debt ceiling or else America defaults and the globalists have the world financial collapse they’ve long planned for – have engineered and guided along, in
Graphing the National Debt
Supply-siders revealed! Voo Doo Economics don’t work! Trickle Down is poppycock! There’s more behind America’s National Debt situation than most people care to admit – especially the GOP who rail against it only when Democrats are in charge.The graph begins with Ronald Reagan and morphs into his virtual sidekick, George W. Bush, which in my opinion is a very good place to start.Which reminds me: