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" 2008 was to the American economy what 9/11 was to national security. Yet while 9/11 prompted the U.S. government to tear up half the Constitution in the name of public safety, after 2008, authorities went in the other direction. "
Government
Name
Constitution
" Amendments occupy a great deal of most legislators' time, particularly those lawmakers in the minority. Members of Congress do author major bills, but more commonly they make minor adjustments to the bigger bill. "
Great
More
Time
" America has two national budgets, one official, one unofficial. "
America
Two
Official
" America is a country that has been skating for ages on its unparalleled ability to look marvelous on the outside. "
Country
Ability
America
" America's always had a real passion for lunatic movements. That's one of the things we're probably known for around the world, I would imagine. "
Real
Passion
America
" An unregulated derivatives market essentially gives Wall Street a way to place hidden taxes on everything in the world. "
Street
Place
Hidden
" At least Bank of America got its name right. The ultimate Too Big to Fail bank really is America, a hypergluttonous ward of the state whose limitless fraud and criminal conspiracies we'll all be paying for until the end of time. "
Time
Name
America
" At root, the Tea Party is nothing more than a them-versus-us thing. "
Than
Nothing
Party
" By creating an urgent crisis that can only be solved by those fluent in a language too complex for ordinary people to understand, the Wall Street crowd has turned the vast majority of Americans into non-participants in their own political future. "
Future
Language
Political
" By incentivizing Wall Street players to sniff out inefficient or corrupt companies and bet against them, short-selling acts as a sort of policing system; legal short-sellers have been instrumental in helping expose firms like Enron and WorldCom. "
Legal
Street
System
" Candidates don't want to be associated with poor people, people who have jobs or are ugly; they want to be associated with a certain middle class demographic, so as a result they leave those others out completely. "
Class
Ugly
Result
" Capitalism is a system for determining objective value. "
System
Objective
Capitalism
" Comparing your family budget to the sovereign debt of the United States is a little like comparing two kindergartners tossing a paper airplane to the Apollo 11 mission. "
Budget
Mission
Family
" Conspiracy theorists of the world, believers in the hidden hands of the Rothschilds and the Masons and the Illuminati, we skeptics owe you an apology. You were right. The players may be a little different, but your basic premise is correct: The world is a rigged game. "
You
Hidden
Hands
" Contracting corruption has been around since the construction of the Appian Way. "
Way
Construction
Been
" Creating legislation is a tough process. But watering down legislation? Strangling it with lawsuits and comment letters and blue-ribbon committees? Not so tough, it turns out. "
Letters
Down
Tough
" Criminal justice, as it pertains to the Goldmans and Morgan Stanleys of the world, is not adversarial combat, with cops and crooks duking it out in interrogation rooms and courthouses. Instead, it's a cocktail party between friends and colleagues who from month to month and year to year are constantly switching sides and trading hats. "
Colleagues
World
Justice
" Democracy doesn't require a whole lot of work of its citizens, but it requires some: It requires taking a good look outside once in a while, and considering the bad news and what it might mean, and making the occasional tough choice, and soberly taking stock of what your real interests are. "
Choice
Democracy
Good
" Everybody I knew, practically, was a journalist when I was a kid - my father, all of his friends. I never wanted to be like those people. "
Friends
People
Never
" Everything in America is so uniform. In Russia, everywhere you go is completely insane. "
You
Uniform
Everything
" For the broadcast business to be successful, viewers need to be not merely interested in our political melodramas, they have to be in an absolute state about them - emotionally invested in the outcome and frightened not to watch what happens next. "
Need
Successful
Political
" George Bush and John Ashcroft were religious in a scary way, but the rational among us could always take heart that, deep down, the Bush administration was more cynical than messianic. "
Down
Way
Scary
" I actually never thought that Barack Obama was anything but a typical Democratic party politician, which to me meant that he was probably in bed with Wall Street. "
Me
Party
Street
" I didn't know Michael Hastings very well, but one thing about him was always obvious - he was born to be in the news business, he loved it, he was made for it. He wrote about Iraq and Afghanistan as places he had always been destined to visit. "
Loved
Born
News
" I don't often get angered by the things press spokespeople say. Most of these people have difficult jobs and are often forced to be the public faces of policies they had nothing to do with creating. "
Things
Creating
Say
" If anything, the bailouts actually hindered lending, as banks became more like house pets that grow fat and lazy on two guaranteed meals a day than wild animals that have to go out into the jungle and hunt for opportunities in order to eat. "
Grow
Animals
Day
" If the law doesn't apply equally to everybody, then you don't really have a system of law. "
Then
Apply
Everybody
" I'm a product of an East Coast liberal arts educational system. "
Liberal
Product
Coast
" I mean, people who say that the Tea Party isn't a grassroots movement, I think, are incorrect. I think in some respects, it is a grassroots movement. "
Think
People
Tea
" In America, it takes about two weeks in the limelight for the whole country to think you've been around for years. "
America
Two
You
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