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kentuck

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14. kick

Reply to girl gone mad (Reply #4)

Sun Jun 10, 2012, 01:49 PM

Jun 2012

good point.

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Debt Slavery – Why It Destroyed Rome, Why It Will Destroy Us Unless It’s Stopped [View all] HiPointDem Jun 2012 OP

Spam deleted by Morning Dew (MIR Team) Thomas4 Jun 2012 #1

How can you define debt as slavery and then complain that creditors are asking for austerity? dkf Jun 2012 #2

In your view no creditor should ever suffer a loss.. girl gone mad Jun 2012 #4

kick kentuck Jun 2012 #14

Yes it is slavery. That is why I am exasperated when people complain about the adverse effects. dkf Jun 2012 #25

When that Debt and those people who have no way to stop from paying it are the main idea.... nolabels Jun 2012 #5

Creditors profit from the money they loan to others. JDPriestly Jun 2012 #6

In pretty simple terms, they steal most of our food and then demand that we go on crash diets. DesertDiamond Jun 2012 #12

Privatize gains, socialize losses. Zalatix Jun 2012 #18

That is why Iceland and Greece have told them to go screw themselves... kentuck Jun 2012 #19

And what a disaster Iceland is now. Zalatix Jun 2012 #20

And that is where we are headed... kentuck Jun 2012 #21

No no, I was being facetious about Iceland being a disaster. Zalatix Jun 2012 #22

Sorry.. oops! kentuck Jun 2012 #23

Iceland and Greece are are very different situations. Iceland chose not to backstop their banks. OllieLotte Jun 2012 #24

Greece is still unsettled... kentuck Jun 2012 #26

Some of the REAL history they refuse to teach in school nolabels Jun 2012 #3

This should be required reading. kentuck Jun 2012 #7

Neither a borrower nor a lender be dipsydoodle Jun 2012 #8

Spoken by an old fool (Polonius) who is like some coalition_unwilling Jun 2012 #15

Bankers started out lending to kings and royals. fasttense Jun 2012 #9

Du rec. Nt xchrom Jun 2012 #10

K&R ck4829 Jun 2012 #11

Hammarabi's laws... kentuck Jun 2012 #13

We are Rome in the last century of the Republic. Odin2005 Jun 2012 #16

"Subsistence life reverted to the countryside." kentuck Jun 2012 #17

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