{"article":{"id":215029,"heading":"Sharing the Economic Pain","author":"Bob Herbert","created":"2008-03-15 09:35:39","modified":"2008-03-15 10:04:10","last_modified":"Sat, 15 Mar 2008 17:04:10","article":"

for Bob Herbert's article published in: Spiegel, 3\/13\/2008, click on

http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/international\/0<\/a>,1518,druck-541207,00.html<\/p>\n","contact":"mbatko@lycos.com","link":"http:\/\/www.mbtranslations.com","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"Now that the economic crunch is reaching those near the top of the pyramid, there is finally a sense that the US is facing a real crisis. The dream is in great danger because the ruling elite stopped looking after the collective interests of society and all but stopped investing in the future.","numcomment":1,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2008\/03\/215029.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":215030,"heading":"not quite...","article":""The dream is in grave danger because the ruling elite stopped looking out for the collective interests of the society and all but stopped investing in the future."\r\n\r\nIt's not that they ever stopped, it's that the system of capital digestion has begun to show its own cannibalism while it now consumes the infrastructure built by the public's taxes to meet it's ever increasing appetite for new capital.\r\nPublic assets are now on the sale block to private ownership for private profit to the very institutions and families who engineered this crash.\r\nSimply put, it's serial and ongoing economic rape in a closed, positive feedback loop.","author":"Corrector","parent_id":215029,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2008-03-15 10:04:10","modified":"2008-03-15 10:04:10","fileurl":""}]}