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Banks And The "Whole Democracy Thing" In 90 Seconds Or Less
90 seconds that describes the sad reality of US banking and politics - in Dr.Seuss style prose.
"Now cabbies and crop-pickers will pick up the slack; your taxes will bring the bankers right back;
where we'll keep spreading our good news, of deregulation and free market views - 'We know what we're doing, just stop with the rules!'"
"Now we're buying both sides to do our good bidding; That whole Democracy thing? Surely You're Kidding"
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when i hear democracy i feel like shouting in the persons face "its a republic stupid"!
We will not be safe until all banksters are in jail servicing clients.
Is this video from the JPM HR dept?
Jump you fuckers...
Hey kids! Get your puppet to go with the cartoon?
OBAMA / BUFFETT 2012
No?
Just say no to corporatocracy and cronyism.
Boycott Berkshire Hathaway companies.
Acme Brick Company
Applied Underwriters
Ben Bridge Jeweler
Benjamin Moore & Co.
Berkshire Hathaway Group
Berkshire Hathaway Homestate Companies
BoatU.S.
Borsheims Fine Jewelry
Brooks
Buffalo NEWS, Buffalo NY
BNSF
Business Wire
Central States Indemnity Company
Clayton Homes
CORT Business Services
CTB Inc.
Fechheimer Brothers Company
FlightSafety
Forest River
Fruit of the Loom Companies
Garan Incorporated
Gateway Underwriters Agency
GEICO Auto Insurance
General Re
Helzberg Diamonds
H.H. Brown Shoe Group
HomeServices of America, a subsidiary of
MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company
Iscar Metalworking Companies
Johns Manville
Jordan's Furniture
Justin Brands
Larson-Juhl
Lubrizol Corporation
Marmon Holdings, Inc.
McLane Company
Medical Protective
MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company
MiTek Inc.
National Indemnity Company
Nebraska Furniture Mart
NetJets®
Omaha World-Herald
The Pampered Chef®
Precision Steel Warehouse, Inc.
RC Willey Home Furnishings
Richline Group
Scott Fetzer Companies
See's Candies
Shaw Industries
Star Furniture
TTI, Inc.
United States Liability Insurance Group
XTRA Corporation
The video talks as if Free Market is to blame. Would an Unfree Market in an anti-Capitalist environment be any different that what we have today?
Want to blame something?
Start with the legalized bribery of our so called, "elected representatives."
Sure, go ahead, boycott them. That way, they can get a bigger bailout/subsidy/tax break next time.
That bothers me too. "Regulation" will be the next great pre-election meme:
"We [bankster-controlled agencies] didn't regulate YOU enough before; we need EVEN MORE POWER!"
So goes the progression from so-called "Democracy" to the new eco-socio-fascist-we-know-better-than-you-with-a-dash-of-green authoritarian mobocracy.
Heaven help us. Things have not yet begun to get truly nuts.
Boycot isn't the way to go some of those are good companies and workers ,they have just been infected by a parasite.
YES!!
http://youtu.be/yge311sFhC8
"The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later, is the people versus the banks." - Lord Acton 1834-1902.
"I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money-power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the republic is destroyed." - Abraham Lincoln
"Banking was conceived in inequity and was born in sin. The bankers own the earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the ability to create money and with the flick of the pen they will create enough deposits to buy it back again. However, take it away from them, and all the great fortunes like mine will disappear and they ought to disappear, for this would be a happier and better world to live in. But if, you wish to remain the slaves of bankers and pay the cost of your own salary, let them continue to create money." - Sir Josiah Stamp, Director of the bank of England in 1928, reputed to be the 2nd wealthiest man in England at the time.
fantastic quotes!
"…pay the cost of your own salary, let them continue to create money."
I think you will find that is slavery, not salary.
UD
Thanks for catching that!
Colombian Gringo
Bring the other avatar back
MDB you come up with the best ideas, how do you do it you see everything for what it is . I nearly forgot to ask hows that Facebook stock working out you know the ones you got so your kids would have a sound financial future, you know that buy at any price deal . Keep up the good work and the Ideas, your the best.
In today's America, a shocking 500,000 small businesses are created every year. At this rate, and with potential layoffs in government regulators, the number of small businesses per government regulator is set to soar. The recent surge in so called "innovative" business apps like "salesforce" and "google cloud connect" have only exacerbated the problem. This is not something nerdy libertarians want to hear, but this figure simply has to be reduced to a more manageable level, or we risk having a total wild west type economy with businesses literally hiring and selling at their own discretion. We need to rethink the way we structure society in America. Government regulators are literally drowning in red tape and we simply have to reduce the number of small businesses to a more sustainable level.
I hope that's sarcasm.
You're partly right MDB.
But what we really need is a system to get rid of babies and young infants that can't fend for themselves. Just imagine how much more productive the taxpaying mothers of this fine nation would be if they weren't burdened with the trivialities of their needy children. This, I think, will expand government coffers and allow more useful people like Larry Summers to be hired on at the executive branch level. This is sound fiscal policy and, quite frankly, I'm surprised that Larry hasn't proposed this already. Perhaps he is over worked, as his picture clearly shows that he is tired.
I agree. A possible added benefit - Save money on bomb manufacture by loading babies up into the B-52's. That'll insure victory over any of our numerous 'enemies' and be relatively cost effective. I can hear our enemies now, "No more baby bombs! We submit! You win! Anything you want!"
You trampled unerringly across the demaraction of scarcasm and into the dark heart of sardonicism.
I haven't laughed so boisteriously in quite some time. Enjoy the Green Enumeration while I pardon myself to contact a psychiatrist.
I'm sure it is. :-)
God forbid we should ever have more small business..
We clearly need more regulation to squeeze out the little guy. The big mega corps will be fine because they have fleets of attornies and accountants. Once we have everything consolidated into a few corporations it will be easier to control.
MDB_ said, "Government regulators are literally drowning in red tape..."
hahaha, if only they were.
Arrrgh. Whenever somebody invokes the royal collective "We" and the "S" word, you know somebody's been drinking Agenda 21 Kool-Aid.
+1
The same type also likes to waste your time by telling you ten things that something is not, before finally getting to the point of what (they think) it actually is. Or, every other sentence starts with "I feel", "I believe", "I think", etc. That shit is irritating.
Im fairly sure its sarcsm, but I gave MDB a red arrow anyway - Im think he prefers to keep his score in the red.
when i hear democracy i feel like shouting in the persons face "its a republic stupid"!
It's currently fucking niether, nor has it been in your lifetime.
its not my fault that dirty word made its way into the progressive school brain wash and then into the socialist lexicon.
I regret that I have only one up arrow to give....
The USA is a republic. The USSR was a republic. The People's Republic of China is a re... you get the point.
A republic is a form of government, we would recognize it as a business model in our jargon.
There is nothing good/bad inherent in a republic.
My 6th grade daughter's Social Studies class recently had a test where the question was; American is a ________? A. Democracy, B. Socialist, C. Monarchy.
My daughter brought up how the answer of Repbulic was not an option. The teacher said something along the lines of your dad is probably a Repbulican and that is a party of our democracy. The answer is democracy. America is a democracy. I guess I understand why she has had 3 C's in Social Studies over each semesters now.
Wow if that isn't tax payer dollars well spent. I remember when I grew up the teachers went out the way to make us understood we lived in a representative republic and not a democracy. What the hell happened to this country?
Dr Engali,
became a Kleptoplutocarcy.
Ignorance is what happened. The dumbing down is equivalent to the loss in value of the US dollar (FRN) – about 98% since 1913.
Tell her when she recites the pledge to yell out "and to this REPUBLIC for which we stand" to drive her point across.
Wow. Your children still recite the Pledge?
My father describes prayer in the public classroom. I thought at first he was joking, but he wasn't.
How the mighty have fallen.
Excerpt from Anthem by Ayn Rand:
Before we removed all our garments, we stood in the great sleeping hall, and we raised our right arms, and we said all together with the three Teachers at the head:
“We are nothing. Mankind is all. By the grace of our brothers are we allowed our lives. We exist through, by and for our brothers who are the State. Amen.”
- Anthem, Ayn Rand
Of which is not much different from...
http://www.dollarvigilante.com/blog/2012/5/30/the-triumph-of-modern-schooling-academia.html
We stood in the government school room facing the United States flag, with our right hands over our hearts, and we said all together:
“I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”
The propaganda drilled into the future livestock/slaves of America from their years in Statist public schools tells you to make sure you pledge your allegiance to the State. Mooo! We get to grow up to be milked or slaughtered for meat. But for now, get back into your cage!
The correct answer should have been
D. Oligarchy
That would have sent SWAT Teams to your house right away!
Socialist would have been a better answer than democracy.
It is a Democratic Republic.
My prefered state is a free state, that is a capitalist anarchic state - I dont think im the only one here on ZH.
Switching to anarchy isnt going to be easy, and there is an entrenched pile of scum who will resist - but it is the ultimate solution to basically all the major problems. It doesnt mean there wont be problems, but it does mean that people have a better chance of having some control over their own lives at least.
MDB is a moron.
MDB is a visionary leading the way for the rest of us.
Simple, yet succinct.
"MDB is a moron."
MDB just uses the words that TPTB use in their own minds.
What is so striking is not MDB's satirical articulations, but rather the stark realization that some people actually formulate and adhere to a belief in that garbage and give it merit.
MDB's worth lies in his/her ability to see those ridiculous concepts clearly enough to reduce them to words for others to gaze upon and gawk at the sheer braindeadness of their folly.
Me thinks many may not see the brilliance hidden behind the mask.
I just wish most Presidential candidates were forced to use MDB for a speechwriter. At least that way their words would finally match their intentions.
When i hear "democracy" I think of Ben Franklin's quotes below..
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.
When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither safety nor liberty.
Where liberty dwells, there is my country.
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Democracy
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.
I will do my part to make this viral. Because the brain dead imbeciles that still believe in the status quo need cartoons to understand reality. I hope this helps...
When I heard bankers asking 'free markets' I felt like shouting "free markets is the last thing bankers want".
at this point, it doesn't matter what you call it
America is no more a republic than a Republican is conservative. The Constitution is dead. We're a republic only by name
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Compare gold prices
That's some crazy shit!
we just need to get Goldman to IPO a few new "fun" currencies.
Just heard Rush Limbaugh mention zh
Context?
On a long enough time line, that bloviating fuckers ratings drop to zero, would be my guess.
he said according to zh most of the 69,000 jobs that were created in May were part time 'hamburger flipping' jobs. His ratings are high because he is relevant, entertaining and on point.
Ok I'll give you that point. But I guess that speaks more to his audience than anything else.
well, was it "his audience" that has systematically looted world finances in a ongoing ponzi game of kick the can down the road? Or was it a bunch of self righteous, metrosexual hipster asswipes in pointy toed sorcerers apprentice looking shoes that have managed to fuck it all up beyond repair?
You post broadcasts elitist snobbery. Which group do you belong to, the ones paying the taxes, trying to keep alive or the ones feeding off the dying body politic?
No, his audience voted for W.
Twice.
Unfortunately, I was forced to give up 15% of my income last year so the government can bailout bankers, blow up brown people around the globe and not put John Corzibe in jail.
Elitist snobbery? Lol. Direct your anger elsewhere; I'm not party to the gang rape of America, or promoting the perpetuation of the system under which it's carried out.
what choice was there? Gore? Kerry? Are you going to try and support either of those two puppets over the W puppet?
Their only crime was to be suckered into believing that Your Vote Counts.
You don't believe that, do you?
Their only crime was to be suckered into believing that Your Vote Counts.
Still a crime of intellectual laziness. I'll even give them a pass on the 2000 W vote; but for fucks sake, elect him again?!? Fool me once and whatnot
But, there's always another choice when it comes to this shitty false-dichotomy; stay home on election day. What if there was an election and no one showed up to vote?
Not voting and supporting this system would bring it down a hell of a lot quicker than getting "our guy" elected.
Fuck you Limbaugh!
The man who would be King -- of Douchebagistan. His success speaks to the ignorance of the trailer trash nation.
And here's yet another Little Lord Fauntleroy. Monarch of his 2758 sq ft Mc Mansion, in the finer borough of Red Dick, New Jersey, to be sure.
Do tell us, Your Grace, of how You, the Man and the State combined, could better our squalid little lives through Your Greate Wisdoms and Expoundings of matters political.
Ah c'mon. Don't be angry. Spit out that loose tooth, stuff some more tabbacky in your cheek and smile.
PS If anyone is a fucking Nazi, it's fat azz, oxyLimbaugh. Ha ha ha.
Do you have any idea how stupid your stuff reads? Do you even read it before hitting "save?"
d00d.. if you imagine limpdick to be the real deal.. then... well.. news flash.. your fucked..
limpdick is the "right" side of central planning. in the end jack wagon, its still central planning.. he lost me when he went all hooray for W.... thank god havent looked back since... @ that oxy swilling traitor to his country.. misleading sheeple like yourself for damn too long...
HAHAHA...you and MDB..you both crack me up!
I heard the same a couple of weeks ago. time to lead with an anti-rush article. The man is as responsible as any for the false divide that is the charade of american politics. He can't co-opt the critique of the system if he simultaneously supports the system.
Limbaugh mentions ZH for self serving reasons. If you listen to his diatribes, it's obvious he doesn't really understand what goes on here.
What self serving reasons are you refering to? He has enough money and persuasion he does not need to go around pumping peoples tires. I'm guessing he likes the critical analysis zh does that the main stream media no longer does.
For all we know, Marc Faber manages Limbaugh's money and he doesn't believe any of the crap he spews. If he cites to ZH, you never know.
He is responsible for keeping exactly half of the "have nots" pointing a finger at the other half of the "have nots". That is his self serving reason for quoting ZH. His job is to keep dittoheads... well... dittoheads.
keep your eyes on the moving shells son, nevermind that there's nothing under any of them, just keep your eyes on the shells as I move them. Kind of hypnotic, isn't it?
Democracy: Two Wolves and a Sheep voting for what is for dinner.
I've said this in Poly Sci classes over the past 2 years and I always get a somewhat quizical look from either Prof or Student. Never ceases to befuddled and infuriate me.
About 89 seconds to long for the general population.
Now take it easy on the poor bankers...they are struggling to make ends meet. It takes a lot of money to buy off both political parties.
It may take a lot of Federal Reserve Notes, don't think that's money though.
I stand corrected.
"Now we're buying both sides to do our good bidding; That whole Democracy thing? Surely You're Kidding"
Yeah. I guess I was kidding.
And don't call me Shirley.
Maclaine? She was (is?) class!
Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos!!
I voted for Pedro.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHbtjoZA3FM
Having lived in Idaho from 5th through 12th grade, that is one seriously creepy, as in accurate, movie.
I'm not sure how a fractional reserve system under a central bank controlled currency monopoly with 200+ regulatory agencies is a free market.
This system is a complete joke, but it's precisely because of not because of a lack of too much government.
Very true...but the part about politicians doing the bidding of their corporate masters is spot on.
Government regulations have largely been about restricting competition. The well connected corporations do well, while the smaller businesses suffer.
The history of the United States is rife with corruption (including selective enforcement of regulations) and influence peddling.
We need LESS central government and MORE enforcement of current regulations.
You show me a government paying rent & I'll show a government packed with rent seekers,
what a dumb video. yeah its the bankers fault. WRONG it is the welfare states fault and the people who support a welfare state (read 99% of americans). the bankers are required for the welfare state. blame the wrong cause and forever live with the symptoms. deregulation? are you kidding me? there are more regulations now than ever. the bankers would never even want deregulation. they want more and more regulation so they can maintain their power. and the only regulation that even matter anyway is legal tender law.
RIP Eduard Khil............
damnnit.. another limpdick listener??
welfare was created to serve the central planners... its a symptom Sir
in a democracy people vote to get something for nothing. has nothing to do with central planners it has to do with philosophy. people want to have their cake and give others cake to their neighbor.
again continue to blame the wrong cause and you will get exactly what you deserve.
And the bankers are delighted to enable their political whores to spend, spend, spend and promise the goodies.
On the other side of the trough are the lobbyists who need the extra cash so their industries can line their pockets with the freshly created funny money or Benny Bucks.
Sure, blame the welfare recipients who are kept stupid and enslaved to the system by design. Whose families have fallen apart because it suited the banksters to have everyone employed and everyone on credit and everyone equally broke - except for THEM.
Why is the Dollar pretty much worthless, because it is worth less and less? Is the top 1% poorer with the same worthless Dollar or do they always have more than enough to keep up with inflation but the 99% need to borrow, borrow and borrow some more just to survive?
Do you see a trend here?
Who is always winning. Who is always loosing? Why are some above the law, ie Corzine?
yes I see the trend when you outsource your responsibility for life prepare for someone to take advantage of you.
Banks have power because of govt. You're confusing cause and effect. Govt creates demand, banks fulfil the demand. ie govt is the source of the problem. He is right.
No, he is wrong, as are you.
Governments are dependent on funding and made up of people that need funding to populate it.
The banks control the currency and the interest rates. They lobby to procure pliable politicians. They use their influence to direct the power of the State for their own purposes. For example, the voters were against bailouts for banks, but we got them anyway. Prosecutions? Not seeing much of that either.
Government is the problem in the sense that ANY government is a problem. Why? Because it allows people with the means to create the best environment to succeed AT THE EXPENSE OF EVERYONE ELSE. However, having a central banking system with legal tender laws is the ultimate in financial tyranny- brought to you by BANKS.
no you are wrong. people's philosophy empowers the government. the government enacts the will of the people and the will of the people is to have a nation that redistributes wealth away from productive people to unproductive people.
And government is not the problem its people like you that are the problem.
You can vote all you want - but you dont count the votes, neither do you select the parties and the nominee's - yes, government and banking are the problem, and working together they are fascism.
Law is a commodity - so what is regulation going to do?
A small group of people's philosophy empowers government. At no point in the history of the US have the "people" empowered government. Even the Constitution was a document formed against the will of the people (The Articles of Confederation were never rescinded) and by a distinct minority that represented landed gentry- composed of between 3 ans 12% of the population ( The Economic History of The Constitution of The United States).
The distribution of funding is a result of the ever increasing fascist State, beginning with Roosevelt. The growth of social spending is balanced with the expenditure for the military industrial complex to benefit the people that pay the highest percentage of taxes. While the bankers preside over the collection of debt interest.
Government, as a form of social contract has ALWAYS been a failure for the People, but a huge benefit for the wealthy. Please present an example of another result.
It is the incredible ignorance and naivete of people like you that are the problem. Now wipe that banker cum off your face.
This should have placed under Riphowardkatz.
"Government, as a form of social contract has ALWAYS been a failure for the People, but a huge benefit for the wealthy. Please present an example of another result. "
this is a result of the fact that people want to outsource their responsibility for life (a philosophy) that is not the proper roll for government. when you do this thieves will gladly step in and take control of your life.
your victim hood mentality shows exactly what kind of loser you are in life. whoa is me, I have no control over my life and no one else does because the big bad bankers. They are so powerful which you claim without even knowing where power comes from. Try being a man, take responsibility for your life. it feels good.
So, you have absolutely nothing.
Try being a man or woman of competence and provide an actual argument backed with facts.
Not sure why you got junked, I voted up because what you said is very true.
ZH I am dissapoint.
Im surprised to see you get so hammered in the ratings for this comment - however, I disagree with you, it is principally the bankers fault (fractional reserve, centrally controlled interest rates, fiat money) - however socialism (communism) is a great part of the problem also.
AIG head Benmosche sez the muppets must work till they're 70 or 80 to pay for bankster thievery...at least that's the way I read it.
AIG Chief Sees Retirement Age as High as 80 After Crisishttp://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-06-03/aig-chief-sees-retirement-age-a...
How's about we have a 'clawback' on his villa?
But yet a Congressman or Senator gets a great retirement after a few years in office no matter what his age.
Vermont is a Democracy....THE EMPIRE is by definition a PLUTOCRACY...only the half-wits who are FAUX News ZOMBIES don't know the difference.
America...Land of the sheep (baaahhhhhhhh) Home of the easily distracted
The banks are our government.
And where the banks are nationalized; the military is your government.
Those politicians and elections are a red flag for the bull, the worm on the hook, the cheese on the mousetrap. It doesn't matter which you choose; you are dinner for banksters.
the banks forced millions to vote for bush and obama. the banks forced people not to revolt. blame blame blame. every US citizen only needs to look into the mirror for the cause.
Actually, they forced everyone to vote for EITHER Gore or Bush, Kerry or Bush, McCain or Soetero. This is how the parties are structured, if you want to be the candidate that is supported by the party, then you must get the party's approval. As that approval is determined by the banksters that pay the way, then yes, they did force it.
An appropriate example is the shenanigans at the Louisiana Party convention concerning the Ron Paul delegates.
While it is a half truth to blame the people for being misinformed, it is made more difficult by the degree of propaganda practiced within society at large and through the education system. The People's ignorance is irresponsible, but with a caveat.
The banker's full knowledge and machinations within the system, their effect on legislation and regulation, is not the fault of people without the means nor intelligence to play the game. The bankers could have made different choices, but they CHOSE not to. They chose to put themselves before the country and the world.
Save your blathering, sycophantic, banker blowjob for your bosses.
actually it was people's philosophy that had obama and bush running. they are both wealth redistributor extrodinaires. that is what people want. they want wealth taken from the productive and given to the unproductive.
Deal with reality.
Please find a poll or study anywhere that demonstrates your hypothesis. The People are incapable of understanding your premise. The redistribution is a function of tax law and the antics of the Treasury (As run by the NY FED). As the Elites create the tax law (Please find citizens capable of waxing on about tax law), they are the ones redistributing.
Since much of the redistribution is to bankers or stock and bond holders (which involves only 20% of the People, but is concentrated in the top 5%, it is impossible for the people to be the cause of the problem.
You cannot deal with reality, because it doesn't allow you to place yourself above a part of the population, ala white trash. It is the heavily dependent entitlement receivers that provide voter support for the corporate welfare programs that protect large companies and BANKS, created by the politicians they own.
My only complaint is that the issue is not regulation but enforcement. You shouldn't need complicated regulations to enforce simple theft and fraud. Just enforce basic law. Regulations are written by the bankers for the bankers. They aren't going to help jacks***.
They can't enforce what they can't understand, and even if one understands then chances are his boss won't and will overrule him. And eventually replace him with someone smarter dumber.
please stop with regulation. It is gvt rules that make me have to bail out these banks. Without my regulation, their regulation would not be required.
“The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It’s people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages”
— Banksy
"spreading our good news of deregulation and free market views" ? really? what we have now are free markets? the person who made this video must have been heavily influenced by marxism because he obviously can't tell the difference between free markets and government intervention. It puzzles me how in one line he can talk about too big to fail and then in the next he utters free markets. what? come on now. if we really had free markets there would be no such thing as too big to fail.
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Or that all the FDA regulators now fully occupied by Monsanto schills are going to make your food safe?
These guys can not be fired, why would they care? Just as civil a servant as the best donut eating, student pepper spraying cops.
When asked they can probably not even name one peace of deregulation. The most they can come up with is the repeal of Glass Steagall. They propably do not know what was in it. The part that was repealed is about security activities allowed by commercial banks. IF you think that this caused the crisis, you have some explaining to do about why pure investment banks also failed.
Just a bunch of populist nonsense, bank bashing. Your own government is plundering you, that's the bottom line. Adn they have police, military and judicial power over you, so try to say no.
banks and democracy? its like beauty and the beast, reversed!
"Beauty is skin deep!"
"Who said that?"
"Not a banksta, my father."
"He must be an old crow!!"
Bankstas are under the skin of society..like a microbial bug...
The welfare state all the chickenhawk repugnicants complain about is a small pimple on the ass of the massive amounts of money pissed away on " debt " servicing each and every year, much less the federal budget in it's entirity.
The value of a compassionate society is hope - as in no need to become a drug dealer or pimp to get by, no need to be a gang banger, no need to drink yourself stupid imprisioned by a lack of a future, no need to go humgry, and live in poverty. That does not mean there should be a permanent free lunch. A merit based system that upped the support for those who proved that they were out to better themselves through education, work, self improvement or whatever else you can think of, would be preferable.
If human beings have the ability to reach their full potential, we all win. Who knows where the next Bill Gates or Tesla will come from - and we will never know if they squander their opportunity to become that being in order to survive and die in poverty. This is a country wealthy beyond belief, about to get flushed down the toilet by those who run the banks, carved out monetary policy, raped, pillaged, and plundered the wealth of the entire world - for what ?
What is their legacy ? More of the same. I am not a Republican, Democrat, Christian, Liberal, Conservative, or any other fucking stupid pet trick media label you may wish to foist upon me. I am a citizen of the world, and, so are you. Stand up and be counted as something other than a fucking sheep, following some bankster asshole to the slaughterhouse, simply because he has a bag of grain htat he is trickling a few crumbs out of to encourage you to follow.
If you do, expect to get economically shot in the head, eviscerated, skinned, hung, and cut up into manageable pieces. You get what you pay for.
The poverty you are so affraid will rob the next Tesla of his opportunity is born from taxation and interest payments to banks (interest paid on money that was created out of thin air).
Free markets, sound money, no tax, no fractional reserve, no Federal Reserve - and poverty will only exist for those who are completely incompetent, and have no family to help them - and those people will likely be helped by charities.
Socialism relys on theft by force, it weakens the family unit, it destroys incentives and it creates a massive drag on the economy of a people. Under no circumstances is using force to redistribute peoples property moral - it is evil, pure and simple - regardless of whatever excuse you make for it (for the children .. ) the state simply wants more money flowing in, more legal power - this will always engender more corruption.
that's why i am voting for obamney2012.
Good prole...you are doing your patriotic duty!
Ron Paul and his ilk are KOOKS! If you don't support the status quo you are spreading CONSPIRACY and TERROR.
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Teachers? Teachers? Did you say teachers? One of my wife's elementary student teachers did not know how to address an envelope... Parents beware.........
Why does this video mock free markets? Bankers don't want free markets, they want corporatism, the opposite of free markets. Govt is the source of the problem. Bankers can be evil but are not the source of the problem.
I would have thought people here are smarter than the 99% protesters...
This video blames free markets. What free market? Bankers hate free markets as those require risk. Where is the risk in banking when, as this video points out, banks are bailed out or promised to be bailed out. There are a lot of names for that practice. None of those names contain "free" or "markets" anywhere in them.
Video is indeed a populistic piece of crap. The gvt can slap some taxes and regulation on them, the banks will take some more riscs, the bailouts will be bigger and the tax serfs will be on the hook once again.
If they would have replaced the jolly fat banker with Ben Bernake, this video would be anti-semtic...
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What also makes this 'deregulation caused the financial crisis' nonsense so shocking, is that americans are no longer welcome to open a foreign bank account, because these banks give the argument:"Having americans as customers would give to much hassle with regulation by the us gvt"
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