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there's nothing serious about this without military spending on the table.
there's nothing serious about all this blah blah blah spending bad business with afghanistan and iraq still happening and their cost largely off the books.
there's nothing serious about this without some attempt to dismantle the lunatic "war on terror" and do something about the grotesque levels of largely unaccounted-for spending on expanding the american surveillance sector.
there is, in fact, nothing serious about this debt cieling nonsense at all.
what is serious is the systemic crisis that this form of capitalist organization is undergoing.
what is serious is the levels of unemployment that are abroad in the land.
the state has a significant role to play in managing crisis.
but the ideological right is so mired in a backwater economic ideology and so beholden to nutcases like grover norquist that none of those problems matter.
all that matters to the right is angling to get back into power. they want to create a crisis and then try to pin it on the obama administration.
except no-one is fooled.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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