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?