"We are in a gilded age!"

YES!
John Edwards message being stifled by the media!
YES!

This is on Maher now.

and gilded bars seem more like it .

the age of corporations and big money controlling the interests.

I thought you said "giggle age"...

Anyone here agree with me that Maher seemed to be asking WHY THE FUCK more REAL dems aren't behind Edwards since he is actually the REAL CHANGE candidate????

Saying that the Democrats were voting against their interests...

are we in the depression yet? or is that still coming.

http://www.reuters.com/article/blogBurst/investing?type=hotStocksNews&w1=B7ovpm21IaDoL40ZFnNfGe&w2=B7pJeHult9GszE37UXlSpmUm&src=blogBurst_investingNews&bbPostId=Cz4MkBRVNrtMuB9LmMmfC4Rq7Cz5WQrmwJJFTTAJXaPi3jKgL&bbParentWidgetId=B7gSUbux1hpbz8uOa7TWsLnV

*Note: The first 5 days of market activity after the New Year has predicted the year in the markets 86% of the time.

snip:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2007/12/23/cccrisis123.xml

"Things are very unstable and can move incredibly fast. I don't think the central banks are going to make a major policy error, but if they do, this could make 1929 look like a walk in the park," he adds."

snip: http://jameshowardkunstler.typepad.com/clusterfuck_nation/2007/12/forecast-for-20.htm

"But to return to my point, something like 40 percent of all new jobs
after the year 2000 were created in the final burst of suburban
expansion -- everything from the excavators to the framers to the sheet-
rockers, and then the providers of granite countertops, the sellers of
appliances and furnishings, and cars to service the far-out new
subdivisions, and so on. This is the end, therefore, not only of the
production "home-builders," but perhaps everything from Crate and Barrel
to WalMart, too, eventually."


I'll leave it up to you to decide whether every leading economist in Western Europe and the US has their Anus in a Death Clench just for giggles.


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Creating a new aristocracy.

Overreaching the limits of that empire.

Borrowing to excess.

Moral corruption.

Hubris.

All of this will make our society (our country, the USA) rotten to the core. We will fall and we will be debased. We will play second banana to others like China and India.

As we fall and become the new peons, the aristocrats will maintain their top positions and cede it to their children. They will become the new monarchs. The new Kings.

We will be the serfs.

But someone did warn us.

And they killed the messenger to silence the message.