Christmas is on its merry way, the nation is bankrupt and War is Not Over.
The organization was bankrupt, at war with the United States Congress and ridiculed for peacekeeping fiascoes on several continents.
As was clear at the press conference yesterday, the president will basically lie through his teeth, blaming the economic crisis on his predecessor and waging a morally bankrupt class war on the high-income earners.
"There will one day be a day of wrath such as has never been seen: all European industry will be wrecked, all markets will be congested, the bourgeoisie will be utterly bankrupt and war and depravity will spread everywhere".
In a country that was scarred and bankrupted by war and subject to food rationing, few people had cars or television sets or had ever traveled by air, and nonwhite faces were rare.
He restored public credit in a nation bankrupted by war debt, devised the first tax, budget and accounting systems, installed the customs service and Coast Guard, and conceived the first central bank.
Attlee's government faced a huge reformatory task in a nation bankrupted by war, but at least his party was then still enmeshed in the working class and could address the electorate in language that everyone understood.
And it was just a few years ago that British soldiers patrolling Basra in soft berets mocked the Americans for staying in their armoured vehicles.The British console themselves with the thought that the real fault lies with America and its "intellectually bankrupt" post-war strategy, as their former army chief, General Sir Mike Jackson, calls it in a new book.
Meanwhile, the major arms and shipbuilding firms went bankrupt after the war for lack of government orders.
Many argue that they did not use forced labor and that they were bankrupt in the war.
