America is Slowing Being Turned into A Vast Debtor's Prison

[JCMach1]

One without walls, but with just as much stigma and compulsion. The stink of the 19th Century work house is back only it has been outsourced, privatized, and never allows you to escape.

Perhaps it's time to reread LITTLE DORRITT...

[acmavm]

1. Slowly? Hell, they crooks in Washington are selling us out as fast as

they can. And they're ensuring that the basic necessitites are getting beyond the means of millions of Americans as well. Such as heating, gasoline, even food. Healthcare has been out of the question for many of us for years.

Nope, there's nothing slow about this toboggan ride to hell that we're on.

[JCMach1]

2. I escaped fortunately, but it struck me in a dream last night

that this is what is happening...

[xchrom]

3. indeed.

with all the folks out here in cali that have mortgages that take up too much of their income -- i'ld hate to see what would happen if we hit a serious bump in the economic road.

[sweetheart]

4. The consensus is broken

What i'm hearing, increasingly, is that the consensus of the
constitution is broken. Nowhere in the declaration of independence
did i read about the nation becoming a giant prison.

It is more than simply time for a new warden, as by no conventional
political actions, would that otherwise be achieved. A prison
needs an earthquake, a shaking of the entire roots of the state,
and a new constitution making sure the civil war stays "won" by the
good guys, even more, a constitution that puts universal human rights
at the center of american life.

http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html
Next to the declaration of independence, this website document is
the most beautiful secular document i've ever read. It makes me
cry it is so beautiful. It has always been my "homepage" because
i think it is the core of a human heart, god willing, that these rights
live forever.

[Skidmore]

5. One of the front page headlines I saw in our local paper

this morning was something like "Tired of 9 to 5, Try 8 to 6". The newspaper doesn't have it in their online version but I'm going to try to snag a copy by the end of the day.

[JCMach1]

6. Some really excellent posts here