Friday, December 16, 2011

What will it take to stop Presidents and Congresses from always favoring rich bankers over Main Street?

I see Wall Street bankers getting a trillion dollars in public bailouts, yet jobs are low priority. Are people expected to wait 3, 6, 10 years for full employment to return? What if there was a National Bank owned by tax payers to make loans to everyday people and small businesses, instead of banks being subsidized so that they can play stocks? Clearly, no one in national public office - except Dennis Kucinich - is championing this. Obama's rhetoric is just that: empty rhetoric to fool some of his supporters. He continues to protect Wall Street and allow obscene pay to the very people who caused the financial collapse and got the bailouts. He calls these CEOs of Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan his "friends", "good businessmen" "who broke no law" just as he is protecting private insurance companies by not demanding a public option. He defends them without demanding a commission to investigate the financial collapse. Why is that? What will it take to change Congress and the President so that they will represent everyday people instead of the wealthy and powerful on Wall Street? Why must the rich get richer and the poor always go to jail? Why are Swiss bank accounts allowed for the rich who want to mively cheat on their taxes? Why do corporations enjoy all the rights of American citizenship yet shift jobs to overseas? Is there any hope that America will be a democracy and not a plutocratic corpocracy? Just asking. Personally, I think we should "jail the rich and make them prove their innocence". But, seriously, what will it take to balance the playing field and have a little democracy in America for a change?

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