Finland, Portugal, and Iceland

[SHRED]

Saw this on FB:

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

1. Can we get Elad to come up with an American version with TPP?

Politician: "In America we let the Corporations work trade deals out amongst themselves which will negatively affect American citizens--the opposite of what we really should be doing."

[longship]

2. Plus, Suomilainens have sisu! nt

[W.J. McCabe]

3. Love it

[pansypoo53219]

4. other countries do not allow stupid to decide.

[hunter]

5. It's not stupidity, it's corruption.

Petty corruption is punished in the U.S.A..

Corruption at the top by Big Money is celebrated.

[ReRe]

6. K&R

Don't SHRED that! Thanks! I think it was about 1984 when I woke up. I knew this country had taken a wrong turn and wondered what the world thought of us (internet wasn't really developed yet.) Sooooo, I purchased a short wave radio and started staying up all night to listen. I learned what the world thought of us. I heard a priest somewhere say that we have more slaves in the world than ever before because wages were going down, especially in the US. And of course I learned all the rest of what they thought. It wasn't good. It's a damn shame one has to go out in the world to find out what the heck is going on in our own country. I eventually drop-kicked my short wave one too many times and it bit the dust. But now I have the internet and DU and you.

[BelgianMadCow]

7. Lessons will be learned from this banking crisis

and how it was handled in different locations.

[malaise]

8. Do you really think lessons will be learned?

Right wingers hate empirical evidence that proves they are wrong.

Neo-liberalism is an abysmal failure by every statistical index but they keep on pushing it.

[bvar22]

10. Lessons HAVE been learned, but "they" learned them in the previous Financial Crisis.

They used those lessons,
and have done even better this time!

Worthy of note:
This most recent "Crisis" was perfectly timed to strike during the Change Over of Administrations in late 2007,
lending Plausible Deniability to BOTH Political Parties.

They have this "Jobless Recovery" scam Down Pat!
They know exactly what to do.
Works every time!

Billionaire wealth doubles since financial crisis
http://www.upi.com/blog/2013/11/12/Billionaire-wealth-doubles-since-financial-crisis/5011384268135/?spt=hts&or=12

The Top .01 Percent Reach New Heights
http://www.demos.org/blog/9/13/13/top-01-percent-reach-new-heights

US Wealthy Have Biggest Piece of Pie Ever Recorded
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/09/11-6

The Totally Unfair And Bitterly Uneven 'Recovery,' In 12 Charts – HuffPo
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023662029

Larry Summers Gets 'Full-Throated Defense' From Obama In Capitol Hill Meeting
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014553343#post1

Wall Street will get away with massive wave of criminality of 2008 - Statute of Limitations
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022516719

Income gap widest ever: 95 Percent of Recovery Income Gains Have Gone to the Top 1 Percent
http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/09/10/one_percent_recovery_95_percent_of_gains_have_gone_to_the_top_one_percent.html

THIS ^ does NOT happen by accident.
It is the result of carefully planned and implemented Economic Policy.
It requires careful preparation, marketing, buying the right politicians, message control, courts packed with Conservative Corporate Rights Judges, and the marginalization and suppression of any opposition.

And THEY are STILL LEARNING!
This time around, we were presented with the most beautifully crafted piece of [font size=3]Political Scamsmanship[/font] I've ever seen.They called it "The Sequester",
and it is working beautifully!

No politician from either Political Party has to face the voters back home and say he voted to CUT the Social Programs the majority of his/her constituents depend upon.
"I didn't cut those programs!
The SEQUESTER cut those programs!"

There is that plausible Deniability again.
Nobody claims they WANTED The Sequester.
America certainly didn't want it,
but HERE it IS!
and Both Parties get to blame the other.
Now that is an awesome piece of Scamsmanship!!!



MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!

[A Simple Game]

11. "and Both Parties get to blame the other." And they're both right. n/t

[Fantastic Anarchist]

13. I wish i could rec your comment.

Well said.

[BelgianMadCow]

16. I'm saying WE will learn

like, you and me. I agree with your view (and hadn't thought of the plausible deniability angle).

[TBF]

9. K&R nt

[Fantastic Anarchist]

12. Love these!

Thanks for sharing.

[Martin Eden]

14. Radical Ideas, or Practical Solutions?

When practical solutions are considered radical, the concept of conventional wisdom needs to be re-examined.

[kairos12]

15. Amazing what you can do when you don't have a part of the electorate so stupid they vote for

teabagger policies.

[liberal_at_heart]

17. "The opposite of what America does." exactly.

We're a good lesson in what not to do.