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you still cannot accept the reality of the situation. the obama administration did not cause the current economic problems. neo-liberal policy caused it. at some levels, it's a function of the entire movement of capitalist organization since the 1970s, a reconfiguration of economic geography that in the end amounts to an exporting of exploitation to spaces with no unions, repressive labor laws and lax environmental regulation--you know, the kind of spaces that conservatives want to create in the states because god knows everyone wants to be in a third world country and if conservatives in the united states can help us all achieve our american dream of living in a planetary guatemala, why who are we to complain?----some more short term, like the derivatives fiasco that was enabled by the lunatic assumptions of alan greenspan, which (again) lean on free-marketeer assumptions that (as always) turned out to be utterly, disastrously wrong.
so you've got a heap of ash in your hands when you talk economic ideology, ace dear, but you cannot face it. so conservatives try to act as though reality is contained inside an etch-a-sketch and if you just shake it real hard the past just goes away kinda like that strange picture of an dinosaur does. from there, it follows you can blame the obama administration for a fiasco that people like you caused and even more absurd you can act as though exactly the economic worldview that got us into this pile of shit in the first place can somehow get us out.
it's funny. and it's only worth commenting on because it's friday afternoon and i'm treading water before heading out into the grey afternoon. because it's also utterly, completely banal what you're saying.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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