Lords of Disorder: Billions for Wall Street, Sacrifice for Everyone Else

[robert l. bentham]

The President’s “sequester” offer slashes non-defense spending by $830 billion over the next ten years. That happens to be the precise amount we’re implicitly giving Wall Street’s biggest banks over the same time period.
We’re collecting nothing from the big banks in return for our generosity. Instead we’re demanding sacrifice from the elderly, the disabled, the poor, the young, the middle class – pretty much everybody, in fact, who isn’t “too big to fail.”
That’s injustice on a medieval scale, served up with a medieval caste-privilege flavor. The only difference is that nowadays injustices are presented with spreadsheets and PowerPoints, rather than with scrolls and trumpets and kingly proclamations.
And remember: The White House represents the liberal side of these negotiations.

http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/it...s-for-wall-street-sacrifice-for-everyone-else

 

[cecilia]

and it's still not enough for the douchebags in congress

 

[FluffyMcDeath]

The President’s “sequester” offer slashes non-defense spending by $830 billion over the next ten years. That happens to be the precise amount we’re implicitly giving Wall Street’s biggest banks over the same time period.

The banks are just doing God's work.

 

[redrumloa]

2 different things going on here. The sequester is a complete joke and only a sideshow to distract your attention. Both Dems are Repubs are groomed into fighting over table scraps when deep, deep cuts with a capital 'T' are needed. So called cuts with a lower case 'b' mean nothing. This country is screwed, bend over and get ready for the pounding.

 

[redrumloa]

As for the big "banks", the executives should be rottting in prison for the white collar crime of the century, if not all time. Not going to happen because the populous is too busy being told what to think by their TV. Most everyone is begging for their servitude. This country could not be more fucked.

 

[FluffyMcDeath]

As for the big "banks", the executives should be rottting in prison for the white collar crime of the century, if not all time. Not going to happen because the populous is too busy being told what to think by their TV.

It could happen if there was the political will but there isn't. Both main parties are controlled by the same interests. DC is the place millionaires go to become multimillionaires and they tend to agree to do what's best for those that will help them get there. It's not just that people believe their televisions, it's that they watch television instead of using that time to actively work on changing things. The people involved with Occupy actively stopped watching television and started making television. They've been actively defending themselves in court and actively demonstrating that the NYPD fabricated arrest charges against them and lied under oath about it. Anonymous has been actively hacking into security contractors and exposing crimes. A lot of the people who finally got excited about politics with the Ron Paul campaign are still busy working through the party and other ways to create change. Occupy has been out in the world stopping evictions and foreclosures.

But it's all going to take a long time and it's going to take a concerted effort. The Koch brothers and their friends got started on taking over the country back in the 70s and they still have the advantage of money and all the "Conservative" think tanks they set up and all the corrupted politicians they own. People have to start their own thinking and get their own politicians. It takes time - maybe in couple of years we can get a few people prosecuted.

 

[cecilia]

http://mashable.com/2013/03/02/wealth-inequality/

 

[FluffyMcDeath]

http://mashable.com/2013/03/02/wealth-inequality/

That be the dreaded L curve featuring "the rich" in the off the chart section that people say "don't exist" or just deserve to be rich without knowing or understanding what it means. People think that someone who went to college or uses big words is too "elite" to be a politician but think millionaires are just folk. People won't listen to educated economists but love to listen to the opinions of $20 million a year TV host saying how bad it is to tax the rich.

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[cecilia]

.....listen to the opinions of $20 million a year TV host saying how bad it is to tax the rich.

you don't see ME buying that bullshit