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“A room without books is like a body without a soul.” – Cicero<\/p>\n
Not sure where this is headed with gadgets like the Kindle, but Cicero and I have something in common.\u00a0 In fact, this room in which I write has a lot of soul.\u00a0 Piles of it.\u00a0 Shelves of it.\u00a0 Open and closed soul.\u00a0 Big and little soul.\u00a0 Profound and silly soul.<\/p>\n
Check me on my logic here.\u00a0 Banks and hedge funds almost sink our economy, the largest in the world.\u00a0 Through dogged work of two administrations, one Republican and one Democrat, the looming depression did not come to pass, but in the process the government had to shovel billions and billions of dollars (and as Everett Dirksen famously said, “A million here, a million there and pretty soon you’re talking about real money.) into the sink holes that so-called premier banks had become.\u00a0 The banks took the money, then promptly began foreclosing on all the loans they themselves had sold, blaming the purchasers for making unwise investments.\u00a0 Scroll forward a bit more than a year and the Republicans in Congress, with a straight face, demand a deal because of the sky-rocketing national debt.\u00a0 Created by those very same bankers who bankroll the Republican party and, oh by the way, sunk the economy.<\/p>\n
How would we deal with the national debt created by the government bail outs?\u00a0 Cut programs that help the poor and the elderly.\u00a0 This whole scenario beggars the imagination.\u00a0 It is the most corrupt, venal, embarrassing, immoral action possible.\u00a0 Bail out the rich, then use the bail out created debt as an excuse for trimming Medicare, cutting back on social welfare programs?\u00a0 The ninth pit of hell.\u00a0 Dante’s inferno.\u00a0 Look it up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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