Well, yes. If one of us peasants makes an error that causes accidental harm, off to the pokey we go. But if Wall Street makes a CAlCULATED misstep that costs millions upon millions of Americans their homes and bread for their children -- why, we all must sacrifice (even more) to make sure the greedy half-wits suffer no inconvenience. Enough, enough! Let them who deal it, feel it!

even more important than corporate corruption is the gov corruption which allows corp corruption to happen in addition to allowing govs to spread mayhem and death all around the world. bigger than WS corruption is the usa gov corruption that supports it. in fact, they support each other. if we dont support gov transparency and protect whistle blowers, then democracy doesnt stand a chance. none of this matters. these pebbles thrown at goliath do nothing.
support assange and wikileaks if u want your gov to be honest with you and allow u to have a say.
http://www.swedenversusassange.com/

//Rule by democracy or by financial markets? Based on what's happened in America, I'd choose the former.//

Then you are a poor student of history.

The founders knew that democracies always commit suicide by realizing they can vote them selves largess from the public treasury and they do and the whole thing collapses - then a dictatorship is pushed in to play by the same idiots who did not want to take responsibility for them selves when they were a democracy (its the 1% holding us down mannn -- what an ignorant load of crap.)

Why doesn't Greece pull an Iceland? Fuck the banks.

If you at all have been following this so called crisis you know that it is nothing more than biggest bank robbery EVER. But instead of the type of robbery that Willie Sutton became famous for, its the banks themselves doing the stealing.

Robbing Greece is the symbolic, if not actual, death blow they would like to inflict on meaningful Democracy. They want the Greek people to pay more taxes while getting lower wages and in the meantime they should sell off their historical inheritance.

The banks fucked Greece up back 10 years ago when they began insisting on austerity instead of investment. The banks lost money and the people must pay. I hope the righties look at Greece and see the dangers of cutting everything back, of ignoring investing in the future, of putting the onus of recovery on those least able to afford it.

Instead they will just twist the Greek fiasco into a warped validation of their concepts of economics.

Beautiful. Yes, Greece, the home of democratic thought, chose democracy. And the leaders of the "free" world rebuked them. Amazing.

When are we going to wake up to the fact that the IMF and banks should not control the world? We followed the IMF bailout/payoff/ austerity model and screwed the pooch--finance execs bought new Porsches and vacationed offshore on our dime, also.

So Greece had the guts to ask the people. Wow, what an amazing and courageous step to take.

Greece is not the only loon outspending their budget. But the others do not want a true Democracy, yet who better to rule from the People.
Greece has been a great role model, they have the ability to restructure.
So OB is going there to tell them not to be a Democracy while killing other Dictators and lying to the people in other Countries about Democracy Should be interesting .
Greece hold your own and tell Euro to take their markers and shove them. People of Greece stop and look, are you importing more than you export...Suppor t Made in Greece! That goes for all Countries. Put your Country first...let China et al export to themselves. Keep jobs in your Country. Tell Wall Street to go home. Finance thru Credit Unions let the Banks and Corporate shills play their games amongst themselves.
Review the past, correct it, you will see once you start listening to others, not following what you know, you lose control on your situation.
Democracy is Alive and Well in Greece!!
Glad we found its location, there is hope for us yet

Perhaps it is time for the entire world to stop the credit to countries. If it was not possible for these countries to borrow, then realism about what we could afford would rule the day. Time all countries default and we have total economic meltdown because if the poor and middle class are going to have to do austerity, then why not everyone? Time to have Armageddon and rebuild our country from the ground up.