Forget Healthcare - Goldman loots the treasury with impunity
Ever since I started reading Max Keiser and Matt Taibbi..... I can think of nothing else.
While we fight with seniors over whether everybody is entitled to their healthcare...
Big BIz continues to loot the country under the protection of bought and paid for legislatures.
It's 1789 - crops have failed - temperatures are plummeting -- and the French countryside is emptying into Paris..... Geithner, Bernanke, Paulson, and their ilk toast the successful pillage of Lehman and Bear Stearns... unaware that the peasants are coming for them.
ARE WE GOING FOR THEM??? .
Read Taibbi and grab a pitchfork..... or something more lethal. It's time for bullet proof glass on Wall St.
from Rolling Stone mag --
"The new president for whom we all had such high hopes went and hired Michael Froman, a Citigroup executive who accepted a $2.2 million bonus after he joined the White House, to serve on his economic transition team -- at the same time the government was giving Citigroup a massive bailout. Then, after promising to curb the influence of lobbyists, Obama hired a former Goldman Sachs lobbyist, Mark Patterson, as chief of staff at the Treasury. He hired another Goldmanite, Gary Gensler, to police the commodities markets. He handed control of the Treasury and Federal Reserve over to Geithner and Bernanke, a pair of stooges who spent their whole careers being bellhops for New York bankers. And on the first anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers, when he finally came to Wall Street to promote "serious financial reform," his plan proved to be so completely absent of balls that the share prices of the major banks soared at the news.
The nation's largest financial players are able to write the rules for own their businesses and brazenly steal billions under the noses of regulators, and nothing is done about it. A thing so fundamental to civilized society as the integrity of a stock, or a mortgage note, or even a U.S. Treasury bond, can no longer be protected, not even in a crisis, and a crime as vulgar and conspicuous as counterfeiting can take place on a systematic level for years without being stopped, even after it begins to affect the modern-day equivalents of the Rockefellers and the Carnegies. What 10 years ago was a cheap stock-fraud scheme for second-rate grifters in Brooklyn has become a major profit center for Wall Street. Our burglar class now rules the national economy. And no one is trying to stop them."
[From Issue 1089 -- October 15, 2009]
where are the assassins?
'a crime as vulgar as counterfeiting...'; I liked that.
How will it end? Not many of the more likely scenarios are very pleasing.
Here' to the unlikely scenarios! Populous anger and focus forces the White House and Congress to bring in Elliot Spitzer, Brooksley Born, Joseph Stiglitz, et.al. to forge some clear regualtions; and allow Elizabeth Warren, Sheila Baer, Marci Kaptur, Maria Cantwell and others of steadfast integrity to speak the truth and Get Things Done. (I'd mention Paul Krugman, but he seems to have been de-clawed since his meeting at the Oval Office.)
Yes, we can!
Well, or not.
October 27, 2009 8:27 AM | Reply | Permalink
Point taken. What has happened and continues to happen is absolutely nuts. We are waking up the reality of it but what to do with this mess? And where it will end?
A european economist that helped create the euro told me a couple of years ago... start growing your own food... working toward more trade and bartering etc. because he and another financial expert I know felt that the economy and financial system would collapse. And I at the time was completely ignorant as to why they would say so.
I have no answers... still rubbing the sleep out of my eyes and not wanting to believe what I am seeing.
October 27, 2009 9:13 AM | Reply | Permalink
I'm not so big on the whole "where are the assassins" bit because it scares people and the whole situation is scary enough already. I'd much rather hear what you are actually planning on doing (assuming that you are not planning on setting up across from the stock exchange with a high-powered rifle and a sandbag.)
But your point is good and that quote from Rolling Stone really gets it.
October 27, 2009 11:22 AM | Reply | Permalink
I am quite sure the assassins bit will be seen as hyperbole.
October 27, 2009 8:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
I confess, sometimes I have mixed feelings.
October 27, 2009 9:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hyperbole? Perhaps.
But it is my favorite fantasy ending to all of this. So where ARE the assassins?
The US of A is ripe for a good old fashioned revolution - a bloody, violent uprising, by the former Middle Class - those with nothing left to lose by torching McMansions in the Hamptons.
At least I have the courage to admit my fantasies. And when it begins... the country will quietly cheer... and Cable anchors will wring their hands and ask -
"How did it come to this?" --
They know perfectly well how we got here, and when we arrived.
America has been quietly broken up and sold off for parts by the Mandarins of banking, Wall St and Washington DC.
So this aging Granny and former Conservative and Perotista will wait patiently for the first shots - the first fire bomb - from "losers and miscreants" reminiscent of Boston and Paris.
And I don't mean another phony baloney false flag operation played on suckers like McVeigh and Atta. I don't mean government theatrics.
I'm waiting for the REAL THING. The resurrection of the true founding patriots - Real Men - former Middle Class fathers and sons - who will risk their lives to ignite the fires of revolt against those who destroyed the idea that was America.
I want to see made for TV heroes spill real blood on the shady lanes of Connecticut and Boca Raton - Desperate, angry men who will do what is necessary - to take back the country.
These fantasies are not for the comfortable, but for the defeated - those with nothing left to lose.
So I wait patiently for the screaming headlines... BLOWN OUT OFFICES - burned down Tuscan Mansions - and weeping trophy wives sifting through the ashes of their ill gotten loot.
-- I long to see bombed out yachts and jumpers from executive suites.
It's January of 1789 - crops have failed, stomachs are empty, temperatures are plummeting - and the peasants are heading out of the countryside toward the Palaces of the city.
October 28, 2009 2:53 AM | Reply | Permalink