Satire? Or just really pointed commentary?

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Best part:  America's downfall summed up in a sentence (see, "biofuels," "climate change = hoax," "tax cuts = increased revenues," etc.)

"Sure, people should have known better than to trust a magical card that allowed them to buy anything they want without any money whatsoever," Williams said. "But at Visa we understood that people will believe anything if they want it bad enough. That was the genius of our whole scheme."

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