The Top 10 Signs You Are Living in a Banana Republic - #4

[SlipperySlope]

The truth of this just depresses me...

Excerpt from The Top 10 Signs You Are Living in a Banana Republic and My Favorite $100 Billion Omelet

#4 ...the Democratic Party, the party of FDR, Kennedy, LBJ, Carter and Obama, the party of the little people, the common man, the disadvantaged, the party of farmers, laborers, labor unions, and religious and ethnic minorities continues the same misguided policies and cronyism of the former Republican regime in BAILING OUT BANKERS and INDENTURING GENERATIONS for what will end up being tens of trillions (with a T). We are either in bizzarro world or a banana republic or both. “The Democrats have replaced the Republicans as the big benefactors to the financial community,” said Kevin Phillips, author of “Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism.” Philips writes, “The financial community is donating more to Democrats than ever before and you’ve got more Democrats in the financial community, creating a very powerful pattern there. I don’t think you’re going to see the Obama administration and Congress willing to be tough enough in dealing with these things.” ...

The whole thing is worth reading.

[anonymous171]

1. Thus the rise of the Social Liberal Fiscal Conservative "democrat." nt

[leftstreet]

2. I kinda like 'Hedge Fund Democrats'

[anonymous171]

3. Ohh, I like that.

Do you mind if I borrow it?

[leftstreet]

4. Not at all

I got it from a DU post anyway

:hi:

[rug]

5. #3. Pirates are near the top of national security issues.

[polichick]

6. Well, you would THINK "this is obvious to even the dopiest of Americans"...

8. The Treasury Department is a wholly owned subsidiary of Goldman Sachs and the other Wall Street mega-firms that are too big (or too connected) to fail. No explanation needed here. This is obvious to even the dopiest of Americans which leads us to …

[amyrose2712]

7. K&R nt

[bdamomma]

8. kick