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82% of Americans: Clamp Down on Wall Street • Financial Experts: Rein In Big Banks to Save Economy • Politicians: Keep Them Lobbying Dollars Coming!
82% of the American public wants tougher regulation of Wall Street.
Most top independent financial experts say that we need to break up the big banks and otherwise rein in the financial giants in order to save the economy.
But Summers, Geithner, Bernanke and Congress like things just the way they are.
Of course they do ... they're bought and paid for:
- Lobbyists
from the financial industry have paid hundreds of millions to Congress
and the Obama administration. They have bought virtually all of the key
congress members and senators on committees overseeing finances and
banking. The Congress people who receive the most money from lobbyists
are the most opposed to regulation. See this, this, this, this, this, this, and this.
- Obama received more donations from Goldman Sachs and the rest of the financial industry than almost anyone else
- Summers and the rest of Obama's economic team have made many millions - even in the first few months of being appointed, or right beforehand - from the financial industry
- Two powerful congressmen said that banks run Congress
- Two leading IMF officials, the former Vice President of the Dallas Federal Reserve, and the the head of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City have all said that the United States is controlled by an oligarchy
The chairman of the Department of Economics at George Mason University
(Donald J. Boudreaux) says that it is inaccurate to call politicians
prostitutes. Specifically, he says that they are more correct to call
them "pimps", since they are pimping out the American people to the
financial giants:
Real whores, after
all, personally supply the services their customers seek. Prostitutes
do not steal; their customers pay them voluntarily. And their customers
pay only with money belonging to these customers.In contrast, members of Congress routinely truck and barter with other people's property...
Members
of Congress are less like whores than they are like pimps for persons
unwillingly conscripted to perform unpleasant services.
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Politicians
force taxpayers to pony it up -- just as the services rendered for a
pimp's customers are rendered not by that pimp personally, but by the
ladies under his charge. The pimp pockets the bulk of each payment;
he's pleased with the transaction. His customer gets serviced well in
return; he's pleased with the transaction. The only loser is
the prostitute forced to share her precious assets with strangers whom
she doesn't particularly care for and who care nothing for her.
Also
like the ladies under pimps' power, taxpayers who resist being
exploited risk serious consequences to their persons and pocketbooks.
Uncle Sam doesn't treat kindly taxpayers who try to avoid the
obligations that he assigns to them. Government is a great deal more
powerful, and often nastier, than is the typical taxpayer. Practically
speaking, the taxpayer has little choice but to perform as government
demands.So to call politicians "whores" is to unduly insult
women who either choose or who are forced into the profession of
prostitution. These women aggress against no one; like all other
respectable human beings, they do their best to get by as well as they
can without violating other people's rights.
The real villains
in the prostitution arena are those pimps who coerce women into
satisfying the lusts of strangers. Such pimps pocket most of the gains
earned by the toil and risks involuntarily imposed upon the prostitutes
they control. No one thinks this arrangement is fair or justified. No
one gives pimps the title of "Honorable." Decent people don't care what
pimps think or suppose that pimps have any special insights into what
is good or bad for the women under their command. Decent people don't
pretend that pimps act chiefly for the benefit of their prostitutes.
Decent people believe that pimps should be in prison.
Yet
Americans continue to imagine that the typical representative or
senator is an upstanding citizen, a human being worthy of being feted
and listened to as if he or she possesses some unusually high moral or
intellectual stature.
It's closer to the truth to see
politicians as pimps who force ordinary men and women to pony up
freedoms and assets for the benefit of clients we call
"special-interest groups."
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Proles and animals are free! :)
Some of us are freer than others, though. d=
There's a revolution coming. Unfortunately its going
to be more like Pol Pot than 1776.
Its time to practice your "King of Queens" act, move
into your worst rental, give all your suits to Goodwill, remove
those online resumes, and hope you can blend in with
the Proles!
82% of the Americans have no money and are afraid that they may lose their job or house at any moment. Bernanke prints money, gives it to the banks and the banks buy politicians to do what the banks want. It is ironic that the money of the American taxpayers is used against them.
Nothing will change until people flood the streets of NYC and DC and DEMAND IT.
The two parties are two sides of the same coin--and BOTH are captured and controlled by the Banking Cartel.
From Wikipedia, Jeffersonian Democracy; In its core ideals it is characterized by the following elements, which the Jeffersonians expressed in their speeches and legislation:
Regulation is nothing.
Enforcement is everything.
Most of us investment managers and/or private investors, fulfilling distinct fiduciary duties to others or directly investing our own funds for our livlihood consider the present behavior of the Washington-Wall Street Complex akin to the demented, felonious excesses responsible for the historical demise of great societies and empires.
Protests en masse in public arenas. Join the unions in their upcoming protests the influence of the banks, even if you despise the unions. At least we show up in numbers.
<Deaf ears.>
That's what the Tea Parties are for... Union demands for special treatment are part of the problem. Remember GM?
Special treatment implies that their expectations are unreasonable in some way.
Let's talk for a moment about contractual obligations. Suppose you and I sign a contract that I will give you $50, plus a donut on Friday if you paint my dingy cubicle. You agree, we sign, and you paint my 'office'. I pay you the $50 on the spot, but when Friday comes, there's no donut. Are you being unreasonable by being upset about this? Is it your fault that I can't deliver on my promises?
It sickens me to think of all the money collected over the last 40 years by CEOs of companies that neglected to put aside sufficient funds to cover their obligations to their workers. I'm not thrilled about the fact that as a taxpayer, I'm on the hook for making their obligations good, but I do recognize that there's a legitimate claim on the other side of the equation. I just wish they could take it out on the malefactors instead of me.
and THAT is the current state of representation in America. Move along.
Excellent as always.Odd the MSM is not in saturation coverage of of the ongoing rape of the republic.
Our representatives, the 4th estate..they are owned.
And it frankly pisses me off.
The MSM is sanctioned through licence, anti-trust or other legal sanctions of Washington and the power elite.
Falling on deaf ears.
Scru this.
Expel Louise Slaughter!
Institute a test of Constitutional knowledge for all elected Klowns.
After constant bombardment of hypocrisy from those that are representing us, it is easy to see how somebody could be pushed over the edge and maybe fly a plane into the IRS building,(taxes that are unconstitutional)and we are paying tax dollars for this circus.
Thomas Jefferson once said, "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure."
I'll let readers guess who the patriot and who the tyrant was in the Joe Stack incident.
If he hadn't left a polemic detailing the tragic refusal of the IRS to accept his designation of his house as a church, we would probably be hearing a bunch of crap about the home-grown wing of Al Quaeda now. The man was a nutjob, plain and simple, and Jefferson had nothing to say about the necessity of adding the blood of imbeciles to the tree of liberty.
Seriously!! My European friends cannot believe Americans would take this sort of corruption laying down-
I am only shocked we havent seen more of it-
I wonder if the lack of organized protest could be partly due to the difficulty of organizing in one area given the size of this country, much different than any European country where you generally have on large main city, usually the capital. Makes it easier here to fuck over people without rebellion, we would have to have coordinated protests in various cities in order to truly make this work...
We have our own seperate lives. Interaction as is found in tribal rituals (churches)is scarce.
Our sit-downs on the front porch are gone along with the front porches.We accumulate most of our news from the manuerfactured media and rarely discuss it with others. If not for shools and churches, where do we interact and share our views? The internet is still up and i am so surprised by that.
The east coast is better suited to revolt as the hands of power are there. Mayhap we all need to get to marching to the east coast.
I will talk it over with the old lady.
We aint helping ourselves by doing nothing.
Basically so far we have said
government we trust you, now we are saying we trusted you to our regret , but its still rolling over us.
Hoooray!!!
Someone finally using common sense to figger out that a country the size of the United States, cannot even organize a sock drawer, let alone a mass demonstration of our murderous contempt and delicious beheadings for The Tribe of geithner,orszag,bernanke,summers,paulson, greenspan,rubin,cassano, madoff, friedman,fuld, frank,thain,dodd,mozillo,o'neal,gensler,kashkari,blankfein,
rubin, clinton, bush, etc, ad nauseum.
CONGRATULATIONS!!! And thank you!