Wall Street undoing explained in Rolling Stone.
For an excellent time line on the Wall Street mess, I suggest this in depth coverage by Matt Taibbi in the current Rolling Stone. He uses the F bomb a lot, but IMHO his explanation of how things progressed is impressive.
WARNING: Could offend donkeys and elephants. The crap started under Clinton, was nurtured and flourished under Bush and he makes it clear that our current Treasury Secretary is cut out of the same cloth as the boys who engineered this train wreck.
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/26793903/the_big_takeover
Anybody who holds on to the hope/opinion/dream that one political party is somehow better than the other might as well drink the real Kool Aid. The powers that be are all from the same bolt of cloth - no matter if they put Democrat or Republican on their lapel.
The longer we keep clinging to the smokescreen that the Two Party System produces anything but an assembly line of power mongers who love to cram money and power into their own pockets at the expense of our country the longer they will succeed at their mission.
WARNING: Could offend donkeys and elephants. The crap started under Clinton, was nurtured and flourished under Bush and he makes it clear that our current Treasury Secretary is cut out of the same cloth as the boys who engineered this train wreck.
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/26793903/the_big_takeover
Anybody who holds on to the hope/opinion/dream that one political party is somehow better than the other might as well drink the real Kool Aid. The powers that be are all from the same bolt of cloth - no matter if they put Democrat or Republican on their lapel.
The longer we keep clinging to the smokescreen that the Two Party System produces anything but an assembly line of power mongers who love to cram money and power into their own pockets at the expense of our country the longer they will succeed at their mission.
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You can abolish political parties but it will not stop the caucusing of groups that try to sway legislation in their favor. These groups would soon adopt a name or title for the convenience of identifying others with similar interests.
If one is so committed to one party or the other that they think all the wrongdoing is the fault of the opposing party, then such people are missing the boat in my opinion.
When you study the Wall Street mess you learn that both Dems and Reps helped bring it along and nuture it into a beast that is gobbling billions of dollars to keep rich people afloat.
We can't spend money to help some poor bastard who lost his house to the flood in New Orleans, but we can throw buckets of cash at wealthy financial operators who caused the problem in the first place. Why is that? Cuz the guy in the trailer was never able to slip his rep or senator $5,0000 at a fundraising dinner.
Fritz SEZ: "That is what Republicans call "Freedom of Speech!"
Missing - my point is that BOTH political parties are chasing the money/power/influence with equal abandon. I didn't notice any of the democratic nominees for cabinet positions paying fines or penalties for their non-payment of taxes. You ever been late or miscalculated a tax payment? There are ALWAYS fines/fees to pay.
Proving - you are letting your loyalty to the donkeys blind you to what is really going on.
Maybe this internet way of communicating is not so good for the two of us.
My initial point was to examine the history of the Wall Street mess and that Matt Taibbi's report seemed to impilcate BOTH political parties having a hand in allowing what went on.
You took that I wanted to do away with the two parties and it has gone down hill from there.
Anyway - how about those Tigers? What do you think they will do this season?