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Dancing On the Debt Ceiling

heard ENOUGH about the debt ceiling yet? have you been beaten over the head with FEAR as a citizen of this american empire that spreads both its hands (a baton in each) to pummel all those on this planet (with the exception of china who holds our purse strings) into submission squeezing the natural resources from every country that has them so that they all flow within our borders & yet we still have no universal healthcare we still have 14.1 million people out of work we still have teachers being laid off & educational programs being cut we still have state governments continuing to crush unions we still have “400 obscenely wealthy individuals who have more cash, stock and property than the assets of 155 million americans combined" etc. now, while the average american sits home & listens to the buzz phrase every hour on the hour trembling as to whether they will get their social security checks, veteran’s checks & disability checks on august 3rd the day after “the government goes into default” because “there may simply not be the money in the coffers to do it,” mr. obama has raised $86 million dollars of his overall goal of exceeding $750 million that his campaign raised in 2008 mitty r. pulled in $18 million in the past three months while the doorknob dubbed “the most boring man in the united states” by many, timmy p. was somehow able to get $4.2 million from some of the dumbest americans in the US--- add that to how much money we are spending daily to bury our head in the sand in afghanistan, iraq & libya, then throw in billions we give israel every year in economic aid from the foreign aid budget & loan guarentees, as well as the billion that pakistan gets every year so that we can keep supplying the war in afghanistan, etc. etc. etc. apparently keeping our absurdly overblown & drawn out election race, all of our wars going & money given to countries that exist outside our borders is more important than the welfare of our population here at home (with the exception of 400 fortunate elites)--- so get some popcorn & practice your best dance moves when you turn on the television to watch our president & all the dirty bloody hands that run our country dance on the ceiling--- you can even turn on lionel richie & sing along throwing in the word “debt” when appropriate--- together, we can watch this place wither & die.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2011




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Date: 7/14/2011 10:28:00 AM
Enjoying reading the very diverse poetry here today. I am happy to see you have shared a bit of your excellent writing with us today Andrew. Heres hoping you have a wonderful day. Love, Carol
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