The Debt Offensive began in 2007: Charlie hit us with everything he had. Cadres of underpriced risk were tunnelling under our lines, popping up when least expected and decimating our defences. We fought back hard, dropping cash from the Hueys, first $700 billion, then trillions, but it was no use. Sure, we beat him back for a while, took down a few banks; but the public couldn't take seeing it all on TV. It was the turning point. We had lost the will to win.
Monday, October 19, 2009
Lessons from history
The Debt Offensive began in 2007: Charlie hit us with everything he had. Cadres of underpriced risk were tunnelling under our lines, popping up when least expected and decimating our defences. We fought back hard, dropping cash from the Hueys, first $700 billion, then trillions, but it was no use. Sure, we beat him back for a while, took down a few banks; but the public couldn't take seeing it all on TV. It was the turning point. We had lost the will to win.
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EXCELLENT !
Eh? I'm not intelligent enough.
= Tet Offensive, Vietnam 1968. Continues the notion of the financial clique as implacable and deadly enemy of democracy.
I suppose that Charlie and banksters do go together.
Um, isn't that a photo of the evacuation of Saigon, perhaps the last bit from the roof of the US embassy, a bit later on? 1975.
HG - yes, I'm suggesting one inevitably leads to the other; I must be ready to read A. H. Clough again...
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/490.html
DM - witty as ever!
Gordon Brown don't surf...
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