The Last Picture Show
President Barack Obama’s Fiscal Year 2009 Budget
by Richard C. Cook / March 2nd, 2009 (1)
[The Last Picture Show was a 1971 film depicting the decay of small town America. It took place in the fictitious town of Anarene, Texas.]
We hear a distant tune reminiscent of America’s high and lonely places and the sound of a dry wind blowing. It’s March 2010 in the tiny West Texas town of Anarene. Nothing much happens here any more. The last business shut down a couple of years ago. It was a cement plant that went broke after the housing bubble burst and the banks stopped lending. The kids out of high school drive their jalopies from …
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2009/03/the-last-picture-show/
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