. . .
K “‘You are a patriot’ with firm and unflinching conviction. Right to my face. Right. in. my. face. With others around to hear.”
J “Rest assured that is not the first label I would use. Or the seventh.”
K “Me neither. That was the surprise. I was smartfounded. What are you talking about? Not you, her. I said. She said that I care deeply about America. I nodded while pausing our conversation to parse and process the comment. Say what?”
. . .
J “Venture/vulture capital captures, dismembers and destroys new and innovative ideas; hedge funds capture, dismember and destroy the productive corporations; private equity captures, dismembers and destroys the local businesses.”
K “Washington and Wall Street continue to strip mine the American middle class with the assistance of both the ‘D’ Division and the ‘R’ Division of the ‘War and Wall Street Party’.”
. . .
J “Debt is the debilitating demon. Debt is self-imposed slavery. Every individual and institution and government and business is indebted.”
K “We need frugality for the individual and austerity – not at the primary expense of the individual – for the government. The Boom Boom Generation has pulled and purloined consumption from the future and foisted debt in exchange on the next generation. There is no constituency with the power to stop or challenge the great theft.”
. . .
K “There is no trust in any individual or institution.”
J “There is no sound reason to trust anyone or anything.”
K “There is no sound reason to trust. Without trust, there is nothing.”
J “There is nothing.”
. . .
K “We need to follow the strings to obtain the e-mail addresses of the Owners.”
J “We need to trace and track the tentacles to the source.”
. . .
K “The U.S. of A. is economically and spiritually and politically and morally bankrupt.”
J “There is that.”
. . .
J “But what is America?”
K “It is what America should be and could have been.”
. . .
K “Can we make America America again?”
J “I don’t know. I just don’t know. Almost everything is against us. Almost nothing is in favor of us.”
. . .
K “You are a patriot.”
. . .
J “She saw your flag.”
. . .
[See the e-commentary at Revisiting “Does Any Institution In America Function? Oh, And Happy Friday The 13th! (December 9, 2019)” Four Years Later (December 11, 2023), 2020: The Year Of Failed Institutions (And Individuals) (December 21, 2020), Does Any Institution In America Function? Oh, And Happy Friday The 13th! (December 9, 2019), Bankruptcies? Layoffs? Foreclosures? Evictions? Inflation? (July 29, 2024) and The Flag (May 31, 2010).]
Bumper stickers of the week:
“. . , the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism, is loyalty to the Nation ALL the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.” Mark Twain, “The Czar’s Soliloquy”
Print, baby, print
Lie, baby, lie
Not all debt is repaid, but all debt is paid
And the free money is still flowing freely
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