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but there is an ongoing economic crisis. unemployment is unacceptably high. corporations and banks are holding onto capital, so there's no investment to speak of and no lending. historically speaking, austerity moves in a crisis situation have exacerbated the crisis situation. that cannot be wished away.
there's a perfectly reasonable argument that the current debt levels are entirely manageable and the debt ceiling "problem" nothing but a rightwing canard the function of which is to provide the demographic with another way to draw a ring around itself and nothing more....the problem from that viewpoint, really, is that obama is entirely too willing to play ball with people he should simply roll over, ignore, and force to into defending their ideology and it's 40 record of failure.
obama really should be far more of a social democrat than he is. i think a lot of us who voted for him projected someone well to the left of what we got.
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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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