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Huffington Post editor Roy Sekoff told Ed Schultz today:
"[The government has become] "Of the bankers, for the bankers, and by the bankers."
I agree, and said the same thing in February.
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ABC News tonight, Diane Sawyer will look at how fed up Americans are moving their money elsewhere, away from the big banks. LOL, let's see how far this goes.
God bless America. Finally got the priorities straight. And this here internet thing is the best contraption ever invented...it lets the chumps vent by posting comments so that they forget where they put the pitchforks and torches. If France had had internet in 1789, we'd now be on Louis XXIV and tyLER durDEN would be in the Bastille.
you're forgetting lawyers. they get paid first
..Spot on Nutella-flavoured...
It occurred to me somewhere after thinking about a cup of tea but before putting on my slippers..that there is way out of this..'bollocks' you say, ya, me too.
Essentially, Cocoablini has already said it, move to Europe, specifically Italy. One, it's very cool.
There are drawbacks, I thought I'd get some peace and quiet and instead it's been construction and endless furniture shifting..for a whole fething year. But there are the wimmin.. and then there is the education system. I mean, it isn't boarding school in the scottish highlands, hobnobbing with aristocrats, but the schools here are absolutely, and I mean way, way above and beyond.. kids here are pretty balanced.
Sure, it is a police state. Make no bones, the Carabinieri are military first and police second, you do what they say because they have next to Zero tolerance. You have to carry papers with you, apparently. The flip side is that they are competent with their power. For example, there is a branch of the police called 'finance police', so if someone rips you off contractually, a builder or whoever, the matter can be dealt with in hours. Just the possibility of rapid justice is significant deterrent. Likewise, the carabinieri keep things safe.
The other option would be a South American State.. good option too.
..I am actually serious. With the infrastructure already here and some planning to organise a strategic accomodation purchasing panel, it would be feasible to find discounted apartment blocks for readership, leave half open for rent, form a building trust - that sort of thing.
Jobs here aren't hard to come by, as far as I can tell, businesses are fairly relaxed about trying out new talent. Maybe it's because there's a lot of money that finds its way in and turns to Industry. There are still large parts of the country which are under-industrialised. A similar thing happened after 9/11, the middle east experienced an influx of skilled, relatively wealthy employers and employees which lifted those economies like rockets.
The weather's good too. We're getting warm air from africa meeting the Siberian cold front, quite a bit of rain, temperature's pleasant.
(what on earth..!)
Look it's a real word:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleptocracy
This just in, I hope everyone reads this - Martin Armstrong blows the lid off "the club" and it is really good from the inside:
http://economicedge.blogspot.com/2010/01/martin-armstrong-behind-curtain...
I like that so many Republicans shit a brick over a nickel raise to the minimum wage, but our government gives away 20-30% of our national wealth to Goldman Sachs and its various cronies, and they shrug their shoulders.
The French Revolution, let's not forget, was a bourgeois revolution against the connected, over-taxing, lazy aristocrats, not a Marxist revolution of the idle poor. The middle and upper middle class who are not busy gambling with public money on Wall Street are getting pissed!
Hence the conversion of England and Holland and other states who were wise to the French Revolution: they converted their systems to a landowner democracy with lords and queens before they had their heads chopped off. The Russians, morons that they are, stuck with the old game plan and got their heads blown off.
You now how hard it is to buy property in Europe? That was the deal-the upper classes gave up power to retain money and land.
One nation under debt with bailouts and transfer payments for all. - xppt
One nation under debt with bailouts and transfer payments for all BIG BANKERS
And big Pharma! Can not forget Big Pharma guys n gals.
At least big Pharma has given us big medicines for big diseases allowing all of us to sit on blogs all day and get fat while just simply taking a pill to prevent diseases of the sedintary blogger. All Financial Innovation has given us is the ATM and global collapse.
Max Keiser asks a great question about Lloyd Blankfein @11 minutes:
http://tinyurl.com/yhtaqbs
Max is great.
Rob a bank go to jail. Bank robs you they get a bonus and a yacht.... Bend over bitches.
Ole!
As I read here somewhere ....
"Sorry folks, but all that money you've been investing in stocks, bonds, IRAs, 401K plans, insurance policies, annuities, and other financial products is, well, gone. You got tricked fair and square, and now its time to move on."
- President Barack Obama, December 2010.
Annnnnnd, it's gone!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAKsMnAM8vk&feature=related
This is news?
Don't forget the neocons/military industrial complex!
or the leftist / socialist / welfare / transfer payment complex?
Yes, don't forget either of them.
I never understand why welfare for individuals is bad when we celebrate all sorts of corporations sucking on the government teat.
OK kids, take the pillow fight outside!
...and don't come back in until you both realize that whether politicians are on the left or right, they are all owned by the corporate interests. No one is standing up and protecting the individual.