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What a beautiful DREAM.
this has to constitute a presecutable war-crime if not a true crime against humanity!
http://www.thedailybell.com/4056/The-LIBOR-Scandal-Is-a-Sham-Engineered-by-Central-Banking-Elites
"Naming Names," by Charles A. Burris
http://lewrockwell.com/burris/burris28.1.html
If the truth be known, the problems leading to the 2nd Great Republican Depresseion were/are far broader than even the housing market. They extend back at least to the early 70s and the wage-productivi ty disconnect and the "free trade" hoax.
Vardoz, it's a continuation of that giant sucking sound that Ross Perot talked about in the early '90s. The repeal of the Glass–Steagall Act removed barriers in the market among banking, securities and insurance companies that had prohibited any one institution from acting as a combination of an investment bank, a commercial bank, and an insurance company. Sorry to say this legislation - the Gramm–Leach–Bli ley Act, introduced by a GOP senator, Gramm, and 2 GOP House members - was signed into law by President Clinton in 1999, and it's been open season on our money ever since. And, by the way, Gramm's wife sat on Enron's board at the time.
Now these bastards want to get their filthy paws on our Social Security money. We CANNOT let them do that!!!
It's a done deal, Obama or Romney, either one, will turn our SS over to Wall Street! Obama has already demonstrated he will do what Wall Street wants!
If they weren't smart enough to be rich, then f'em.
As Leonard would say to Sheldon, Fairbs was just demonstrating the fine art of sarcasm. You really have to watch more television.
Nice job Fairbs. Your "f'em" comment was meant to imply that we should 'finance them,' correct?
I don't think the FCC has any quarrels with the word 'finance.'
No, I don't need to watch any television at all.
or fuel-based economies. That is a daily rip off of everybody that people can't wait to pay more for.
Talk about lemmings. Or is it the pied piper?
Binky, a "Ponzi scheme" - Gov. Rick Perry's terminology for Social Security - is meant to enrich the guy at the top, e.g. Bernie Madoff who fleeced a lot of individuals and funds. But for millions of retired Working Poor and Middle Class folks, the monthly SS check is the only thing between them and the Poor House. And it's working!
You can't possibly compare SS to what these guys have done.
Indeed. The "Ponzi schemers" hoard the money insatiably; government, if fulfilling a public obligation, fund programs like SS to promote the general welfare, i.e., the populations' rights not to cope with unjustifiable hardship and/or "die off;" or literally die off.
Yeah, David, for the GOP the most ignored line in the Preamble to the Constitution is "promote the general welfare". But they pay close attention to the line before that, "provide for the common defense". They believe the Constitution's only purpose is to allow them to openly carry ANY kind of weapon to protect themselves, their families, their property, and their way of life, and build a military that will protect them from the world. The "promote the general welfare" clause is the Framers' way of saying "I've got your back" to all of the 13 Colonies. And it's implemented through public education for all, social programs such as SS, and health care programs such as Medicare. Frankly, we should have a Single Payer system for all, similar to Medicare - but that would eliminate the unnecessary private insurers, wouldn't it? As JFK said, "a rising tide lifts all boats".
The GOP is trying to implement the "Me Only" Ayn Rand philosophy in a country of 300 Million people spread across 50 states, subverting the original intent of the Constitution. And they've made a lot of progress toward that end.
HOW DEPRAVED!
SSI works and the opponents of SSI ONLY hate that fact because they cannot buy any shares in something that has such a massive cash flow.
Know thy enemy.
Let's portend a bank robber with a million atomic bombs demanding to make him robbing the bank legal.
Why doesn't Barkley and al Qaeda get together with a doomsday device and say its our way or no life on this planet.
The barbaric savagery currently employed by the Republican Party compels me to question whether they actually receive campaign contributions from Al Qaeda, or whether they are merely pursuing their mission to destroy America gratis.
It makes me "physically sick" hearing the absolute shite that spews out of these cretin's mouths.....and the fact that they will invariably get away with it all!
"Zero Accountability" : Glenn Greenwald on Obama's Refusal to Prosecute Wall Street Crimes
Arrest them all, then perhaps We the People can start working together for a better Earth...dream Should be everyone's objective. But don't worry someone will do it for ya'll
BTW, this July, Woody Guthrie would have been 100 years old. There is a line from one of his songs that goes something like this:
"Some rob you with a six-shooter, some rob you with a pen." Obviously, the old adage that the pen is mightier than the sword, is once again ringing true. The thing about the sword though is that the blow is usually permanent, and sometimes the sword breaks making it useless, or it can get stuck in the rib cage, and is impossible to extract. The pen, on the other hand, can chip away at you, and take tremendous advantage of group stupidity.
At least the robber barons of old, the criminals of the 1929 crash, had some feelings of guilt, and in many cases, rather than face the droll music, jumped from the majestic towers of corruption into the canyon of Wall Street. Can you imagine this Diamond thug doing a mea culpa in any way, shape or form?
Does anyone know if the Tower of London is still functional as a place for quiet reflection on ones misdeeds?
Q. An investment banker & a commercial banker fall off the roof of a 50 story building. Given that the weather a dry and cool, who hits the ground first?
A. Who cares!
On the other hand, I did agree with the bail out of the auto industry, which has worked somewhat to keep some American jobs. Maybe I believe that people who build something and pay taxes at home are real Americans, as opposed to those who pay no taxes in America and say they are residents of Macao.
So we see that one unrecognized and unpunished but nonetheless montrous crime spawns a multitude of evil progeny.
Who says there's no justice...and that the law isn't looking out for us???
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