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    Re: The Sequester: Budget Crisis or Manufactured Crisis?

    Quote Originally Posted by Hatha Sunahara View Post
    I get a good sense of where we are using this analogy. Just wondering if anyone can help me improve it any.


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    Re: The Sequester: Budget Crisis or Manufactured Crisis?

    Quote Originally Posted by Twisted Titan View Post
    not a clue what this sequester means.
    The "International Law" version of the definition is interesting; I don't know if it applies

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    Re: The Sequester: Budget Crisis or Manufactured Crisis?

    If the government didn't have unlimited credit, we wouldn't be having any financial crises. Or a police state.


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    Re: The Sequester: Budget Crisis or Manufactured Crisis?

    at 11:59 there will be a deal made ... you heard it here first
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    Re: The Sequester: Budget Crisis or Manufactured Crisis?

    Quote Originally Posted by steel_ag View Post
    The "International Law" version of the definition is interesting; I don't know if it applies

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    yeah, some of those dont sound like cuts.
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    Re: The Sequester: Budget Crisis or Manufactured Crisis?

    Sequester, schemester...smoke, mirrors and a load of shit to choke on for the gullible masses.
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    Re: The Sequester: Budget Crisis or Manufactured Crisis?

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    Re: The Sequester: Budget Crisis or Manufactured Crisis?

    I think in the government they call it 'optics'. The objective is to make it look like you are doing something to solve the problem, when all you are really doing is buying time.


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    Re: The Sequester: Budget Crisis or Manufactured Crisis?

    Quote Originally Posted by Hatha Sunahara View Post
    I think in the government they call it 'optics'. The objective is to make it look like you are doing something to solve the problem, when all you are really doing is buying time.


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    Re: The Sequester: Budget Crisis or Manufactured Crisis?

    “Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses. It is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.”
    H.L. Mencken

    "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."
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