Brexit Is What A Dark Age Feels Like. Here's Why. http://www.ndtv.com/opinion/why-brexit-is-just-the-first-earthquake-of-its-kind-1423847 … Not sure I buy the title, but analysis provocative.
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Replying to @emptywheel
As to America, this turns on the false premise that the working class paid for the bailout of the banks. Actually the banks did.
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Replying to @emptywheel
I count it as paying because the taxpayers were paid back (not that most of the working class pays federal income tax anyway).
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Replying to @orrinknox
Perhaps (you believe in the "lock box," then), but they didn't incur any cost. Ergo, their crimes and recklessness went cost-free
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Replying to @emptywheel
Perhaps. But the articles thesis is that dark age trigger was working class paying for the bank bailout. Not how it went down.
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Replying to @orrinknox
You do know Brexit happened in the UK, not the US?
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Replying to @emptywheel
I do. The article was talking (at that point) about the US.
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Replying to @emptywheel
Okay, well, it isn't as clear as I'd like it to be.
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Model for response to 2008 in Europe very different from the US, and a lot of working people paid dearly.
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