BS: Obama to Cut Social Programs

Subject: RE: BS: Obama to Cut Social Programs
From: GUEST,Niggardly Bastard
Date: 08 Apr 13 - 01:02 AM

Yea. He can get more than $20,000 for one speaking engagement.
$20,000 is peanuts to him.

Subject: RE: BS: Obama to Cut Social Programs
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 08 Apr 13 - 02:16 AM

With that kind of token bullshit, no wonder his devotees are totally screwed up!...By the way, I will have to admit, I was able to my 'Hope and Change'.....I bought a three dollar Powerball Lottery ticket with a five dollar bill!! ..and sure as shit..I got 'Hope and Change', too!

GfS

Subject: RE: BS: Obama to Cut Social Programs
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 08 Apr 13 - 02:55 AM

Of course this guy is one of the crooks that should be behind bars, but it doesn't make what he says any less true.

There was a time long ago when I actually felt that our government and our elected officials were actually working for the best interest of our country and people. Not that there weren't some bad apples, not that mistakes weren't made and even covered up for a time, but that the overall direction was one of good intent.

Only a fool or someone completely in denial could hold that view now. Simply on scale alone we have the most corrupt government on earth. There are certainly many, many worse governments, but based only on corruption, on total amount of money involved, we must be at the top of the heap.

The ones most responsible for our current sad state are Wall Street, giant corporations, who dedicated decades and billions, legions of lawyers to deregulate laws prohibiting corruption, followed by legions of lobbyists, highly paid tools, who were often selected by their corporate masters and groomed to "appeal" to the general public for elected office, with copious amounts of advertising dollars pumped through the willing prostitutes of corporate media to legitimize the "candidate". After serving a term or two(provided they "played" the game), with suitable "connections" established in the halls of power, the politician/lobbyist returns with cash and often ready written bills, beneficial to the corporate sponsor, for their "connections" to pass through congress. For Wall Street a great system, if you can stand the smell, for ordinary American families with no representation, not so much. It also helps to have a thoroughly corrupted supreme court, to put the whole stink fest on afterburner, in order to betray the American people, with the Citizens United decision.

And there you have it in a nutshell. Why, if this is the case, aren't Americans marching on Washington in the millions? We're all numb. We're all tired. Working all the hours of the day and night, no vacation, no pension, can barely feed the kids and pay the rent. In short we've been "corporatized", we've been "wallmarted". So far the Demons (Dimons) are winning.
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The recently departed head of JP Morgan had this to say ""Over four years has passed since the greatest financial collapse in the history of this nation," Diamond [Dimon] recounts, "and still no one on Wall Street has been held accountable for the crimes which have been committed.

"Washington says they can't find one single banker guilty of fraud. I can think of 15 people off the top of my head who should be behind bars.

"Why aren't more people in jail? If you rob a bank, you go to jail. If a bank robs you, it gets a bailout. We need to end this cycle of impunity on Wall Street. And I am prepared to testify against my fellow bankers if need be.

"Let me explain how this system works," Dimon writes. "Politicians protect us from competition and criminal prosecution, and in return we give them money to use in their campaigns.



"There's only one word to describe such an arrangement: bribery. And you know what's really insane? Its not even illegal. Those idiots in Washington actually write laws regulating the manner in which they would like to be bribed."

From a friend of mine....

GfS