Matt TaibbiThinkers

America is a country that has been skating for ages on its unparalleled ability to look marvelous on the outside.

Goldman Sachs is the world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.

The National debt is totally unlike a family budget for about a gazillion reasons, not the least of which being that families cannot raise money by fiat or deflate the size of their debt unilaterally and that family members die instead of existing infinitely.