In the Land of the Free

What is now called a "financial news network" used to be called a "shill."

Jon Stewart has it right: "a box of parrots."

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And what can you do with all that money? Simple: Buy houses in Detroit, where the median house price is just $7,500.

Yes, that's the median. Half of them are cheaper.

Now let's go over the basics, about this meltdown, OK?

The most basic point is this: The Republicans did this to us. They were in charge for the last eight years, flogging the notion that all regulation is bad, that greed is good, and that Wall Street was going to save us.

These are the folks that wanted to privatize Social Security and scrap Medicare, and who still think there is nothing wrong with this country that another $500 billion tax cut for the super-rich cannot cure.

Let me say it plain: Every election is an intelligence test, and if you voted Republican in a National election in the last three cycles, you failed.

The ideologues in the Republican Party have done what the terrorist could not: they have hammered America to its knees.

Sept. 11th was a blow, but we were back up six months later.

Hurricane Katrina was a Biblical-scale disaster, but it was regional.

What the naked greed of Wall Street financiers, abetted by their political henchmen in the Republican Party, have done is slash a wound in our side that will still be seeping blood and oozing puss a generation from now.

Do not forget who crashed this car, and who now shouts that we are wasting time and money caring for the wounded.

Do not forget, America, O Great Nation of Amnesiacs.

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