Matt Bors for October 26, 2011
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OCCUPY RATIONS PEOPLE We Are The 99% END THE GREED VOLUNTEER Man: I'm having a moral dilemma: do I want to live in a country that caters to the ultra-rich, goes broke fighting pointless wars, plunders the environment and sells out working people at the behest of corporations... Or do I want to agree with a HIPPIE?!
WRONG! The correct historical comparison is “Hoovervilles,” which were created by those rendered jobless and homeless by the Great Depression, keeping in mind that one of the direct causes thereof was the boom-and-bust approach to the unregulated stock market and banks, which in turn was created by the Republicans like Calvin Coolidge: Reagan’s favorite president. The key acts FDR got into place stabilized the economy and prevented this happening again — until the Republicans took off the brakes and the controls starting with Reagan.