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kpete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-22-11 08:47 AM
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Greg Palast Suggests Obama "Issue An Executive Order"-Lock Away GOP Majority Leader Cantor, et al.
Edited on Fri Jul-22-11 08:50 AM by kpete
EXCLUSIVE: The Deficit Is Not Default of Obama
Thursday 21 July 2011
by: Greg Palast, Truthout | News Analysis

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Charles Dickens' "Oliver Twist" gave debtors' prison a bad rap. Too bad. I'd say that locking away GOP Majority Leader Eric Cantor in a penitentiary for deadbeats seems like a darn good idea.

Let's talk about how we ended up in this pickle, bucking up against the "debt ceiling." From 2001 to 2008, a Republican president took an annual surplus of $86 billion left for him by Bill Clinton and ran up the budget deficit to over half a trillion in a year ($642 billion in 2008). Altogether, George W. Bush blew up the national debt by over $3 TRILLION - then left the bills to Barack Obama.

For eight years, Bush spent like a drunk monkey. The world was the GOP's Bergdorf and they had our credit card.
If there was a shiny, new war on the shelf, they just had to have it: Iraq, Afghanistan, and let's not forget the Fantasy Wars, the half a trillion dollars a year on fancy-ass weapons for a war that won't happen. (Example: the Virginia Class submarine. (The V-class was designed to attack Soviet subs. There are no more Soviet subs, but Bush ordered three dozen anyway - at $1.8 billion each.)

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Default lies with the Republican spendthrifts, Mr. President. So, I suggest you issue an executive order creating a new wing at Guantanamo: a debtors' prison for trillion-dollar deadbeats.

the rest (delicious!!!):
http://truth-out.org/its-not-default-obama-jail-gop-deadbeats-debt-crisis/1311268412
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Hubert Flottz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-22-11 08:49 AM
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1. Great Idea...maybe draft him and send him to the Iraqi front...
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ladjf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-22-11 08:53 AM
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2. Bad idea! If that happened, he would become a martyr and the
pubs could get him elected President for Life.
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n2doc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-22-11 09:32 AM
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3. I know this is a joke, but boy does it play to the righties fears
The nightmare of a "socialist/communist/nazi' government taking over and putting people in concentration camps. They already think it is going to happen. Of course, so did a lot of us during the * years.
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