TPP and Pay to Play

[YoUDeeMan]

Everybody gets free money! We'll loan you some of our free money in exchange for monetizing your national assets. It's part of what sunk Greece and similar lending schemes have hit municipalities like Jefferson County, Alabama. It's a racket that the banks will, take to another level through new "free trade" agreements.

Neo-liberalism at its finest.

Oh, I agree with the part that says that Brazil should create their own wealth (versus getting trapped in the game by foreign banks), and I agree that the banks are just a bunch of sharks looking for a meal while preying on ignorant and corrupt state/local/federal officials, but you still haven't addressed the article's issue regarding the building of their own assets through the confiscation of land (or taxing it out the wazzoo until the people/corporations have to abandon it to the state).

[UNI88]

OK, I'll play.
For some reason I see John Candy saying it. Was it in Home Alone II?
Or was that when he was talking about being the Polka king?

Nope. Kalm got it.

I still occasionally make restaurant reservations under the name Froman for shits and giggles.

"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it."

[Ivytalk]

Nope. Kalm got it.

I still occasionally make restaurant reservations under the name Froman for shits and giggles.

"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it."

"Pucker up, buttercup!"