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.

8 comments:

  1. Nick Drew19 October 2009 at 20:51

    EXCELLENT !

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  2. James Higham19 October 2009 at 22:04

    Eh? I'm not intelligent enough.

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  3. Sackerson20 October 2009 at 08:29

    = Tet Offensive, Vietnam 1968. Continues the notion of the financial clique as implacable and deadly enemy of democracy.

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  4. dearieme20 October 2009 at 11:57

    I suppose that Charlie and banksters do go together.

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  5. hatfield girl20 October 2009 at 13:45

    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.

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  6. Sackerson20 October 2009 at 14:55

    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

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  7. Sackerson20 October 2009 at 14:55

    DM - witty as ever!

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  8. Elby The Beserk20 October 2009 at 18:10

    Gordon Brown don't surf...

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