October 10, 2008
America the Banana Republic
Hitchens: A money class fleeces the banking system while the very trunk of the national tree is permitted to rot and crash.
The ongoing financial meltdown is just the latest example of a disturbing trend that, to this adoptive American, threatens to put the Land of the Free and Home of the Brave on a par with Zimbabwe, Venezuela, and Equatorial Guinea.
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