“Everybody is living it up, both sides republicans and democrats.” There is only one thing in this world that matters to them, and that is to keep acquiring money and more money, power and more power. There are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation. One is by the sword. The other is by debt. While we talk of recovery, the personal pain of poverty is all around us. Some seeds of today’s troubles were sown by the responses – or lack of them – to the financial crises of the late 1980s.
