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Chuck Palahniuk wrote in Fight Club, "I see all this potential, and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy **** we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... our Great Depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off."
its not like wall street us a person. Really the problem was first from governamnt who encourage loans to people they knew could not affors them even helping with down payments;closing etc;terhn lenders who alos kenew ;then borrowers who alos knew and in mnay caes sgined false income; borrowed agisnst principal . In mnay cases they knew but wanted to join the home investment and thought the worse that could happen is they refied or sold at a profit, How they are all so called victims.But perhaps governamnt wated it mroe than anyone creating Fannie and freddie and altho critising executive pay;seetup fannie and freddie with the more loans they gauranteed the more the executive made. Then democrats ven freuse to audit them and barney frank stated that they could just bail them out fi tehy got in trouble on load. We have stopped basilig them ot since. So Blaming wall street is stuipd and not prodctive at all.The race to be a victim in this country has gotten out of hand.That is like thinking the Big 3 were just unlucky automakers.Its the politics of victimization in this country. Conning yourself or let anther con you is a sure way to failure.
The joke is on us...
The fact is that the alliance between the collectivists (socialists) and usurers (aka "kapitalists") is still in power. It's using unrest to trigger reactionary surrender of inalienable rights and liberties.
Frankly, the USA hasn't been capitalist since 1935, and the institution of Socialist InSecurity.
So when the "left" protest the socialist government for not being socialist enough, or when it protests the usurers (incorrectly described as "capitalists"), the masses are totally confused.
Agreed. This is very clearly illustrated when Socialist icon Michael Moore defends The FED while simultaneoulsy touting that Captialism must be destroyed.
I agree, I would never had done the bank bailouts or the stimulus packages, both hurt the country and made problems deeper IMO.
Most conservatives I read feel the same way.
We are a freaking worthless country if people oppose protests that would benefit them. I find it difficult to understand but not difficult to believe that conservatives oppose this protest. I think it's based in ignorance. My view is liberal thinking is hopeful and experimental, forward-looking while conservative thinking is backward-focused, fear-based, and always counterproductive. I can't think of anything that conservative thought has accomplished other than recreations of things past that were less than ideal to begin with.
Yes, corporate greed and control are reasons why we have so many economic problems.
Yes, government is also a problem but it is fully owned by corporations. Where do you think they get their marching orders from? Duh! Our wars are fought to protect business interests, not the citizens!
Yes, the rich get away with everything but you'll NEVER be one of them, they assure you of that fact every day. And they laugh at your admiration of them as they openly pee on you and say "Work hard for us, work hard!" If hard work actually paid off in our country, we'd have a better distribution of wealth and something other than 1 person in six living in poverty.
Put the bankers and "leaders" in jail and drop the jail in the ocean.
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This post sounds so much like the kids in NYC who refuse to work for the small amounts they can get hired for. Do you not see that what you say is asking to destroy this country in order to make us all equal to each other monetarily? Stand back a way and look at what you said there.
I'm not like them tho. I want to see 2% unemployment instead of the something 25% real unemployment rate we are running now. With 2% unemployment I'd be working at any job that would hire me. I'm waiting for the employment picture to improve before I start looking for work in the mean time I'm going gold prospecting at no money per hr and no guaranty of getting any and the prospect of getting $2hr if I find anything at all. I'm not afraid of working hard for little money.
But we need full employment and everyone working for $30hr to meet our obligations as a nation. Otherwise we will end up like Greece.
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