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Thursday, March 31, 2011

The New American Dream

"The United States of America has undergone a powerful transformation over the course of a single generation, and you are right up there in the catbird seat, watching it all unfold. For you, the New American Dream is "I got mine, kiss my ass, work and die (if you can find work, sucker), and pay me." For everyone else, the New American Dream is about simple survival, about running as fast as they can while going inexorably backwards...."

William Rivers Pitt

Maybe you can even see the cancer eating away at the country that has treated you so royally, but you don't really care. You are safe and comfortable behind your gilded walls.

For now, anyway.


The New American Dream

by: William Rivers Pitt, Truthout

If you are wealthy, you are living in the Golden Age of your American Dream, and it's a damned fine time to be alive. The two major political parties are working hammer and tong to bless you and keep you. The laws are being re-written - often by fiat, and in defiance of court orders - to strengthen the walls separating you and your wealth from the motley masses. Your stock portfolio, mostly made by and for oil and war, continues to swell. Your banks and Wall Street shops destroyed the economy for everyone except you, and not only did they get away with it, they were handed a vast dollop of taxpayer cash as a bonus prize.

The little people probably crack you up when you bother to think about them. Their version of the American Dream is a ragged blanket too short to cover them, but they still buy into it, and that's the secret of your strength in the end. So many of them walk into the voting booths and solemnly vote against their own best interests, and for yours, because the American Dream makes them think they, too, will be rich someday. They won't - you've made sure of that - but so long as they keep believing it, your money will continue to roll in.

The Citizens United Supreme Court decision swept away the last tattered shreds of the façade of fairness in politics and electioneering, and now you own the whole store. You can use your vast financial resources to lie on a national level now, lie with your bare face hanging out, because it works. You're not the bad guy in America. Teachers, cops, firefighters, union members and public-sector employees are the bad guys, the reason for all our economic woes. NPR and Planned Parenthood are the bad guys. You did that, and when governors like Scott Walker rampage through worker's rights on your dime, you chuckle into your sleeve and enjoy your interest rate.

We're firing teachers and missiles simultaneously, to poach a line from Jon Stewart, and the inherent disconnect fails to sink in among those serving as dray horses for your greed and ambition. They're in the traces, bellowing about what you want them to focus on thanks to your total control of the "mainstream" news media, and they plow your fields with the power of their incoherent, misdirected rage.

They pay their taxes. Isn't that a hoot? They pay their taxes dutifully and annually, and that money gets shunted right to you and your friends, thanks to the politicians who love you and the laws that favor you, not to mention the wars that sustain you. They pay their taxes when they should just pay you, right? Talk about getting rid of government waste. They should just pay you directly and cut out the middle man, because it all goes to the same place in the end. You.

You are General Electric, and you paid no taxes in 2010. You made $14.2 billion in worldwide profits, $5.1 billion of which was made in America, and your tax burden amounted to a big fat zero. In fact, you claimed a tax benefit of $3.2 billion, thanks to your anti-tax lobbying efforts in Washington and your use of offshore tax havens that protect and defend your profit margin.

You are ExxonMobil, and you paid no taxes in 2009. In fact, you got a $156 million return.

You are Bank of America, and despite receiving a massive chunk of the taxpayer-funded bailout, despite recording a profit of $4.4 billion, you paid no taxes and received a $1.9 billion rebate.

You are Chevron, and you made $10 billion in 2009. You paid no taxes, and got a $19 million refund.

You are Citigroup, and you paid no taxes despite earning more than $4 billion, and despite getting a sizeable chunk of the taxpayer-funded bailout.

Your favorite part of it all?

The part that makes you laugh out loud?

It's when you hear the politicians you own talk about "shared sacrifices" and "fiscal responsibility." Man, that's a hoot. You watch them rave and froth on Capitol Hill about shutting down the government because the country doesn't have enough money to fund "entitlement programs" the little people have been paying into for decades. The very term - "entitlement" - cracks you up; how is it an entitlement if people paid for it? Nobody asks that question, of course. Nobody asks about cutting the bloated defense budget. Nobody asks where the billions diverted to Iraq and Afghanistan actually went, or where the money for Libya is going. For damned sure, nobody demands that you pony up and pay your fair share. You made sure of that, and the show goes on.

The United States of America has undergone a powerful transformation over the course of a single generation, and you are right up there in the catbird seat, watching it all unfold. For you, the New American Dream is "I got mine, kiss my ass, work and die (if you can find work, sucker), and pay me." For everyone else, the New American Dream is about simple survival, about running as fast as they can while going inexorably backwards.

Maybe you can even see the cancer eating away at the country that has treated you so royally, but you don't really care. You are safe and comfortable behind your gilded walls.

For now, anyway.

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William Rivers Pitt

William Rivers Pitt is a Truthout editor and columnist. He is also a New York Times and internationally bestselling author of two books: "War on Iraq: What Team Bush Doesn't Want You to Know" and "The Greatest Sedition Is Silence." His newest book, "House of Ill Repute: Reflections on War, Lies, and America's Ravaged Reputation," is now available from PoliPointPress.

The United States of America has undergone a powerful transformation over the course of a single generation, and you are right up there in the catbird seat, watching it all unfold. For you, the New American Dream is "I got mine, kiss my ass, work and die (if you can find work, sucker), and pay me." For everyone else, the New American Dream is about simple survival, about running as fast as they can while going inexorably backwards.

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

SUPPORT THE 'TROOPS'


According to one soldier, members of 3rd Platoon also talked about a scenario in which they “would throw candy out in front and in the rear of the Stryker; the Stryker would then run the children over.”


"After the killing, the soldiers involved in Mudin's death were not disciplined or punished in any way. Emboldened, the platoon went on a shooting spree over the next four months that claimed the lives of at least three more innocent civilians. When the killings finally became public last summer, the Army moved aggressively to frame the incidents as the work of a "rogue unit" operating completely on its own..."

more than a few of your brave young men and women of our armed forces....
completely insane and utterly without a shred of common decency left....
and it goes on and on and on...on and on and on on and on and on on and on and on
on and on and on on and on and on
on and on and on
on and on and on on and on and on on and on and on on and on and on
on and on and on
on and on and on on and on and on on and on and on on and on and on on and on and on on and on and on on and on and on on and on and on on and on and on on and on and on

hardly mentioned, hardly reported...year after fucking year after fucking year....
year after fucking year after fucking year....year after fucking year after fucking year....year after fucking year after fucking year....year after fucking year after fucking year....year after fucking year after fucking year....year after fucking year after fucking year....year after fucking year after fucking year....year after fucking year after fucking year....year after fucking year after fucking year....year after fucking year after fucking year....year after fucking year after fucking year....year after fucking year after fucking year....year after fucking year after fucking year....year after fucking year after fucking year....year after fucking year after fucking year....year after fucking year after fucking year....year after fucking year after fucking year....year after fucking year after fucking year....year after fucking year after fucking year....year after fucking year after fucking year....year after fucking year after fucking year....year after fucking year after fucking year....year after fucking year after fucking year....year after fucking year after fucking year....year after fucking year after fucking year....year after fucking year after fucking year....year after fucking year after fucking year....year after fucking year after fucking year....year after fucking year after fucking year....year after fucking year after fucking year....year after fucking year after fucking year....year after fucking year after fucking year....year after fucking year after fucking year....year after fucking year after fucking year....year after fucking year after fucking year....year after fucking year after fucking year....year after fucking year after fucking year....year after fucking year after fucking year....year after fucking year after fucking year....year after fucking year after fucking year....

Saturday, March 26, 2011

MODERN LOVE


Modern Lover walks beside me....modern Lover walks on bye...
Bowie

Thursday, March 17, 2011

A IS FOR ASSHOLE

While older plants burn fossil fuels, nuclear plants depend on the heat that occurs during nuclear fission, when one atom splits into two and releases energy.


"If workers are unable to get additional cooling water into the reactor vessel, the molten fuel core will collapse into the water in bottom of the vessel. Eventually the heat from the decaying fuel would boil away the water that's left, leaving the core sitting on the vessel's lower head made of steel.

Should that happen, "It'll melt through it like butter," Allen said.

So lets build some more!!!!!!

BARRY BRACKETS


"With respect to Private Manning, I have actually asked the Pentagon whether or not the procedures that have been taken in terms of his confinement are appropriate and are meeting our basic standards. They assure me that they are. I can't go into details about some of their concerns, but some of this has to do with Private Manning's safety as well."

Tuvok the Confidence Man

This administration is as bad, if not worse than the Bunny Boy's......
You've been had.

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

WHERES TUVOK?


"Im watchin the Bulls game!"

" He doesn't want to go first on proposing entitlement reform because history teaches that this is not the best route to a deal. He didn't want to say anything too tough about Libya for fear of endangering Americans trapped there. He didn't want to weigh in on the labor battle in Wisconsin because, well, it's a swing state. "

But I will give tax cuts to the wealthy and cut poor "folks" heating assistance. I will turn the gulf of Mexico into a fucking pool of shit. I will eavesdrop torture, assassinate us citizens and refuse to prosecute wall street criminals. I will hire them all to run my administration. I will continue to allow war profiteers to benefit from the blood of out soldiers and let two wars go on and on and on... I will throw liberals under the bus and try to destroy social security and medicare. I will shit all over my base and piss all over the working class, NAACP and make shitty trade agreements with Korea and the fucking Chinks......Folks.

FUCK YOU TUVOK YOU CHEAP SILKY FAKE FUCK.


TAKE ME TO OUR LEADER...

when was the last time you saw Tuvok visit the hood?


We are like an army without a commander. We went 'all in' with a turncoat and a self interested apologist. The democratic base is practically begging for some leadership and the answer has been deafening. Out of this situation with the grace of God, might rise an alternative to the criminally compliant REPRESENTATIVES we have allowed to transform our democratic system into a self-serving institution that serves the affluent and their greed. Both the elephant and the donkey are too fat, rich and corrupted to lead. Its time for new leadership.

"In our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God."

Aeschylus


WHILE ROME BURNS


Look Folks;

"Make no mistake, we will close Guantanamo prison, which has damaged our national security interests and become a tremendous recruiting tool for al-Qaeda," he said.

"In fact, that was an explicit rationale for the formation of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula."

Look Folks;

Obama Clears Way for Guantánamo Trials


Hey Folks, social security under assault, illegal union stripping in Wisconsin, two 10+ year old wars, torture, tax cuts, oil crisis, food prices, unemployment rate off the charts, foreclosures, government shutdown the fucking nation going to hell in a hand basket ...
whats our 'brilliant' commander in chief doing about it all?????

Obama To Host Basketball Party For Bulls-Bobcats Game

I fear, I fear,
The end draws near
very clear, very clear
end is near

WTF

FIRST BLOOD


"By stripping out all the fiscal fixes and considering
just the collective bargaining portions, the Senate Republicans were able to pass the measure without the Democrats."

"Rather than negotiate an agreement, they have elected to push the button on the nuclear option and, effectively, wipe out the collective bargaining rights of some 300,000 state employees in Wisconsin."

DUMP THE GREASY FUCKER
SIGN HERE

NAOMI


My fucking hero.
To bad she could never be our Commander in Chief.
We got stuck with this Uncle Tom SOB.


"...what they found: the cylinders filled with pitch black, gelatinous goo that looks exactly like crude oil. But it didn't act like oil: the scientists were able to wash it off their hands easily, and it smelled strongly of sulfur, not petroleum. "As a sedimentoloist I can tell you that none of us have ever seen anything like this in the Gulf of Mexico," Hollander says, "especially not in shallow water. It certainly didn't belong there."


Millions of dead fish found in California marina




...BULLSHIT WALK(ER)S


"In 30 minutes, 18 state senators undid 50 years of civil rights in Wisconsin," Miller said in a statement condemning the vote. "Their disrespect for the people of Wisconsin and their rights is an outrage that will never be forgotten."

Spectators in the gallery screamed at the Republicans on the floor,
"You are cowards."
You asked for it, now your gonna get it.
motherfuckers


I suggest you find a place to hide.

ENTITLED TO LIE YOUR ASS OFF


"The president has acknowledged the need to overhaul entitlement programs and says he welcomes proposals, but Republicans argue that Obama should take the lead"

Hey liberals, hey progressives, when President Obama says, “Social Security is not the huge contributor to the deficit,” he’s not backing you, he’s frontin’ you.

Social Security is not an “entitlement” program
"ocial Security is an investor funded program that has also been used to fund the government, it is NOT an entitlement program nor was it intended to be any form of welfare. The “entitlement” the government speaks of would be more aptly applied to them; they feeling they are entitled to avail themselves of our investments and use that money for whatever they choose to. "

ITS ALL FUCKING LIEEEESSSSS

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

APOCALYPTO.....AMERICAN STYLE!


Fascinating piece by Chris Hedges.

"
“Why,” Diamond writes, “did the kings and nobles not recognize and solve these problems? A major reason was that their attention was evidently focused on the short-term concerns of enriching themselves, waging wars, erecting monuments, competing with one another, and extracting enough food from the peasants to support all these activities.”




Monday, March 7, 2011

REVERSAL THEORY TRIUMPHANT


“all animals are created equal but some animals are more equal than others”.
Animal Farm

Sometime between the 1980's and today, the idea, the notion, the very concept of bearing compassion for those less fortunate has systematically been dismantled through a very long, patient and brilliantly executed use of broadcast media and replaced with a scorn and repulsion for those grappling with poverty. Ironically, and what is truly astonishing about this full reversal of sentiment, is that this mindset is a shared loathing even more prevalent among those that fall within the same or similar social economic circumstance.
This is the power of television.
This is the power of money.

"
And the King answering shall say to them, Verily, I say to you, Inasmuch as ye have done it to one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it to me." Matthew 25:40

"Washington politicians came up with the demeaning idea of referring to all programs of government aid to the poor and disadvantaged as entitlements. Now, imagine the effect of that term upon the mindset of a family that has been living off government poverty assistance for generations. Make no mistake about it, the terminology our political leaders used was deliberate and it was meant to affect the mindset of the poor. It’s no longer a helping hand or a charitable gift, but rather an entitlement, as in I am entitled."

"This New Harshness is a philosophy that takes pleasure in “tough-minded” phrases like “There’s no such thing as a free lunch”-and can even justify a certain hard-nosed pride in proposing no lunch at all for some people."

"Republicans claim that the social safety net woven during the New Deal and the Great Society has become a “hammock”-fostering the image of lazy poor folk lolling about while the rest of America sweats"

“Look, I definitely feel folks’ pain,” he said, “Look, I definitely feel folks’ pain,” he said, “Look, I definitely feel folks’ pain,” he said, “Look, I definitely feel folks’ pain,” he said, “Look, I definitely feel folks’ pain,” he said, “Look, I definitely feel folks’ pain,” he said, “Look, I definitely feel folks’ pain,” he said, “Look, I definitely feel folks’ pain,” he said, “Look, I definitely feel folks’ pain,” he said, “Look, I definitely feel folks’ pain,” he said, “Look, I definitely feel folks’ pain,” he said, “Look, I definitely feel folks’ pain,” he said, “Look, I definitely feel folks’ pain,” he said, “Look, I definitely feel folks’ pain,” he said, he said, he said, he said, he said, he said, he said, he said, he said, he said, he said, he said, he said, he said, he said, he said, he said, he said, he said, he said, he said, LookLookLookLookLookLookLookLookLookLookLookLookLookLookLookLookLookLookLook
LookLookLook.........he said, he said, he said, he said,
Look....Look........................look.
walk it back walk it back walk it back
Look Look Look
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shared sacrifice shared sacrifice shared sacrifice shared sacrifice shared sacrifice
Look, Look....shared sacrifice shared sacrifice Look, look,,,,
walk it back....entitlements need to fix walk it back look entitlements...look we all have to we all have to...walk it back walk it back...entitlements...
Look....NO LONGER SHOULDER YOUR BURDEN. SHOULDER....YOUR....BURDDDDDENnnnnNNNNNnnnnNNNnnn...Loooooook
Loooooook...looooook....walk it back......buuuurrrddddeeeennnnnnnnnn.....
entitlements......burden.....look....
folks, folks, folks, folks, folks, folks, folks, folks, folks, folks, folks, folks, folks, folks, folks, folks, folks, folks, folks, folks, folks, folks, folks, folks, folks, folks, folks, folks, folks, folks, folks, folks, folks, folks, folks, folks, folks, folks, folks, folks, folks, folks,
burden, burden, burden, burden, burden, burden, burden, burden, burden, burden, burden, burden, burden, burden, burden, burden, burden, burden, burden, burden, burden, burden,
sacrifice, sacrifice, sacrifice, sacrifice, sacrifice, sacrifice, sacrifice, sacrifice, sacrifice, sacrifice, sacrifice, sacrifice, sacrifice, sacrifice, sacrifice, sacrifice, sacrifice, sacrifice, sacrifice,
entitlementssssSSSSsSSsSsssssssSSSSssssSSSsssssssss......

THE SHEER POWER OF FUCKING WORDS.

"After all, they were long ago transformed from "citizens" into "consumers" - without a peep of complaint from anybody - so, having already surrendered their duties, obligations, and responsibilities to anything beyond their hunger for Cheez Doodles, they might now find themselves suddenly devoid of "individualism," staggering down the highways in mobs wherever a whiff of blood emanates from a strip mall?"
Kunstler

LAWYERS GUNS AND MONEY




THE ART OF (CLASS) WAR


"...can only end in Despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the
people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic Government,
being incapable of any other"

Benjamin Franklin

I think we have arrived at Mr. Franklins moment of foresight. The greed, ignorance and hubris is much to entrenched here now. The question now, is how to best
prepare for the coming shit storm.

"Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance."
"All warfare is based on deception."
"To know your Enemy, you must become your Enemy."
Sun Tzu


"CASHIN' IN" ON OTHERS MISERY


"Dont come lookin for my money!Go FuCk YoUrSeLvE'S YOU COMMIE FUCKERS!!!I GOT MINE, AND YOU AINT GETTIN ANY!!!!"
"We don't have a debt problem....we have a redistribution of wealth problem..."

What Trapper John and the big eared monkey faced trick turning pussy fuck are not realizing is that when the masses come looking for what was stolen from them, they aren't going to be asking nicely anymore. They are going to take it.
Only after putting Trapper Johns
FUCKING HEAD ON A FUCKING SPIKE.

was stolen from themwas stolen from themwas stolen from themwas stolen from themwas stolen from themwas stolen from themwas stolen from themwas stolen from themwas stolen from themwas stolen from them
STOLEN FROM THEM!

Divorced, Tracy Byrnes is the mother of three children,
two girls, ages 7 and 2, and a boy aged 5.

In March of 2011, Jon Stewart showed Tracy Byrnes defending CEO pay and their contractural bonuses during the crash of 2008: "These poor people paying off mortgages paying off debt, the odds that these people even have this money is slim to none." But battling against teacher salaries and their union contracts: "I think that this is showing a poor example to our kids. People are fighting for things that quite frankly they don't deserve. They need to make concessions."

Byrnes whined, “The bigger issue here is to stop villainizing (sic) the wealthy.”

Byrnes should be sucking cock on the waterfront for $10 bucks a pop. She is a class A big mouthed money grubbing sleazy North Jersey whore with no shred of human compassion or decency whatever.


A FAILURE TO COMMUNICATE


"Morrell went on MSNBC to be interviewed by Chuck Todd and Savannah Guthrie about a variety of topics, including the conditions of Manning's detention -- and by "interviewed," I mean: have a series of open-ended questions reverently posed to him without the slightest challenge to a word he uttered. Guthrie touted beforehand her intent to ask Morrell about Manning, but despite being told before the interview about the series of deceitful statements, and despite the fact that she should have been independently aware of that episode as a journalist preparing to interview the Pentagon spokesman, Morrell's false statements were, needless to say, never brought up." - Greenwald

"What we've got here is , failure to communicate...."

With high school reporting 'professionals' like these, the game is most certainly over.
My advice to all who can reason, now that the watchdog is obviously dead, get a fuckin Passport and be ready to abandon ship....this fucker is going down.

Friday, March 4, 2011

WE SICK BOSS?

"IF the master got sick, he'd say, "What's the matter, boss, we sick?" When the master's house caught afire, he'd try and put the fire out. He didn't want his master's house burned. He never wanted his master's property threatened. And he was more defensive of it than the master was."


That was the house Negro.....

-x-
"

"For the fortunate among us, there is the temptation to follow the easy and familiar paths of personal ambition and financial success so grandly spread before those who enjoy the privilege of education. But that is not the road history has marked for us. "

RFK

JESUS H. HUCKAFUCK


"....guards are forcing Bradley Manning to strip in his cell—a humiliation tactic guards use in Guantanamo Bay. A spokesman for the Marines referred to this as, “standard operating procedure.

If Bradley Manning is executed, it will be as if Obama will have pulled the lever himself.
Okay, listen here MIKE HUCKAFUCK.
(Huckafuck dropped out of seminary after one year in order to take a job in Christian broadcasting.[15][16][17] He has two honorary doctoral degrees: a Doctor of Humane Letters, received from John Brown University in 1991, and a Doctor of Laws from Ouachita Baptist University in 1992.[18][19], At 21, Huckabee was a staffer for James Robison, a television evangelist, )

Huckafuck angrily declared that a prison sentence was “too kind.”
Huckafuck wants him dead.
There ladies and gentleman is your CHRISTIAN huckafucker.
“I got into politics because I knew government didn’t have the real answers, that the real answers lie in accepting Jesus Christ into our lives.” He concluded that speech with words he says he’d phrase differently today: “I hope we answer the alarm clock and take this nation back for Christ.”

HEY HUCKAFUCK, EVER HERE ABOUT THIS JESUS GUY????
"Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy" (Matthew 5:7).

YOUR GONNA HAVE A LOT OF EXPLAINING TO DO HUCKAFUCK. MAYBE YOU OUGHT TO PUT THAT BASS DOWN A MINUTE AND START THINKING ABOUT YOUR FUCKING SOUL.

THE GOSSIP GIRLS


This sloppy shit stained sack of pussy scumbags is what passes for journalism today in the US.
They make the rounds on the boob box collecting cash for tricks they perform for their pimps every motherfucking day, and then they whore them selves out for the bigger doe by collecting cash for publishing smut for our celebrity game show host political class.
If you REALLY want to know why things in this country are so completely and unequivocally CLUSTERFUCKED beyond repair, you have these four droppy, unethical, morally bankrupt, ass spreading whore slut baboon fuckholes to thank for it.
The 'I GOT MINE' crowd at its consummate unsurpassed and nauseatingly abhorrently narcissistic.
Every Time I see one of these pussy fucks on the shit box I feel like I'm gonna vomit.
Especially you Mike Allen. You mealy mouthed Elmer Fudd Mother FUCK. Id like to snap your fucking ribs with softball bat and piss in your mouth. You pussy bitch piece of shit.

JOHN 'LOT LIZARD' HEILMANN

"I'll suck your dick for a book deal!"

Seen here with one of Tuvok's Cat-food Commission fiscal bullshit artists, wealth management, Investment Banker (mega whore) and all around trollip Robert Wolf.
Saw this slut for the umpteenth time with Andrea Mitchell (Mrs. Greenspan) spewing about how the GOP will back off Obama if he makes cuts to Social Security and how good that would be. This filthy whore of a man should be gang raped by a band of bloodthirsty Gorillas jacked up on meth and Viagra. Another Mega Slut gossip-girl that passes for journalist today.

Thursday, March 3, 2011

AND THE WINNER IS......GOBSHITE

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Tuesday, March 1, 2011

BARRY DONT SACRIFICE

“Everybody's going to have to give. Everybody's going to have to have some skin in the game.” - Confidence-Man


"If you stick a knife in my back nine inches and pull it out six inches, that's not progress. If you pull it all the way out, that's not progress. The progress comes from healing the wound that the blow made. They haven't even begun to pull the knife out. They won't even admit the knife is there."
Malcolm X



WHORE OF THE MONTH NIALL FERGUSON


"I'm a Scottish Limey Whore Fuck, sell all of Americas Highways to the Chinks."

"Indiana recently leased the operation of the state’s principal 157-mile highway to a consortium led by the Spanish company Cintra and the Australian investment bank Macquarie. For the next 75 years, the consortium will collect the tolls from motorists. Indiana got $3.85 billion upfront. The city of Chicago has done a similar deal, leasing out its Skyway toll bridge for $1.83 billion. A few other state governments have been moving hesitantly down this same path, usually by setting up public-private partnerships to manage stretches of highway."

" the most obnoxious part of the deal is that the city is now forced to cede control of their streets to a virtually unaccountable private and at least partially foreign-owned company. Written into the original deal were drastic price increases. In Hairston's and Colon's neighborhoods, meter rates went from 25¢ an hour to $1.00 an hour the first year, and to $1.20 an hour the year after that. And again, the city has no power to close streets, remove or move meters, or really do anything without asking the permission of Chicago Parking Meters LLC." (The Fucking Arabs)

This Cocksucking BAWHEID slut should shut his FUCKIN MAW and get his BOGGIN FANDAN HOOMISTER ASS THE FOOK OUT OF MY COUNTRY BEFORE HE FINDS HIS MOCKITTY FANDAN PUMMILLED UP HIS SHITESTER!!!

" The Ferguson piece is an amazing specimen; the guy only half-jokingly concedes that selling Alaska is probably going too far and seems to be in favor of selling off a fairly sizable chunk of the national infrastructure......selling bridges and grazing lands to finance extra vacations for Jamie Dimon and George Soros. Awesome idea."
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/mailbag-friedman-naked-swaps-and-madoff-20110228

Whore of the month Niall Ferguson,
"....a better idea would be to get smart and start inviting bidders to what could be the sale of the century."
http://www.newsweek.com/2011/02/20/sale-of-the-century.html