Bank of America needs another $34 billion.... this is in addition to the $45 billion they were granted in the first round of funding. There are other banks on the take as well, we all know that. The funding was intended to jumpstart the lending markets. Did it work? NO.. lending is tighter than ever. Credit card companies smirked at the President when he met with them to admonish them for jacking up card fees... and they routinely raise the rates of every card holder indebted to them. Jesus was crucified when he tried to throw the 'money lenders' charging extortionist fees from the Temple. Anything more than 10% tithing was considered Usery. Jesus refused to stand for it, and as a result... they nailed him to a cross. HBSC just raised the rates on a card I have, to 29.4%. The did it so quietly that I was lucky to stumble across the paper trail that has confirmed the rate hike. Before you act all self righteous, and assume I have done something to warrant that action, I suggest you take a fine tooth comb to your own credit card contracts... if it has not happened to you YET, well, be assured it is just a matter of time before it does. These banks are greedy, they see an 'opportunity' to extort additional fees from the consumer and they are intent on doing just that.
Afterall, that is CAPITALISM, and capitalism is the AMERICAN WAY. ( or is it? How about bailing out the banks, is that Capitalist or socialist?)
America is being extorted. Calls for 'transparency' are a joke as public officials switch sides of the political aisles to insure yet another place at the government feeding troughs.
Working class America is being hammered. Hard working families are being destroyed. There is no plan to help them either. If they are unlucky enough to suffer a layoff, if they miss a payment through no fault of their own... too bad. Let them fail.. they are just peons in the bigger game of global wealth generation. BUT, let Bank of America whine... because of bad investments and corporate irresponsibility.... and oh well... we NEED to bail them out. THEY are TOO important to America. Evidently, so too, is CitiBank... and the list goes on and on.
I am gonna stop short of calling for 'revolution'. I would just be throwing myself in front of a moving train... and my peers are so enamored of the 'abs' of the Great Obama... that he is barely scrutinized at all for his actions. He is a celebrity... who cares if he breaks his promises... who cares if he spends the working class into perpetual debt?
"ALL HAIL THE GREAT OBAMA",.. the whole world of full of his glory.
We have been sold a crock of crap. If the great Obama really wanted to change things... he could start by jailing as many financial services managers whole stole millions, as the country jails young blacks for smoking pot.
The Great Obama... the next teflon presidency. As slick as snake oil these boys are... even put the fox (Geitner) in charge of the henhouse (Treasury)... installed biased operatives in every meaningful position in government (Tom Vilsack at USDA), and claims no responsibility for anything. He is pure. His agenda is PURE. And Oh, he has six pack abs!
America needs to learn to keep an eye on things... Americans need to revisit the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, and become more proactive about how we allow our managers to manage us... and we need to do it now... before we are all further enslaved.
I already know... whatever I say about this "dream presidency of the liberal agenda".. I will be attacked mercilessly. Regardless of what I say, or how I say it... the mere suggestion that the "Great Obama" might be on the wrong track is met with expletives, inuendos and slanderous attacks.
Everything precious to the liberal left... everything from eco-conciousness to 'do your own thing' was introduced to popular culture by the artists and intellectuals of the 1960's hippie revolution. You young people need to go back and find a copy of the "Whole Earth Catalogue"... ( no, I don't think it is for sale at the Iphone App store)... some of us have been 'fighting the power' now for almost 5 decades... we are the senior survivors of the counterculture revolution that made the election of the Great Obama possible in the first place. BUT, we would be remiss, were we to allow the "Great Deception" to derail everything we have fought so hard to achieve.
I know, American youth doesn't want to hear this. They want to believe in CHANGE.. oh, and they also want to "rock on"... as opposed to taking a stand against political oppression. We are a country of little sheep. and the Media is our shepherd. Let me take you back to 1968 America. In 1968 I was a student at the University of Hawaii, I was present in the Ampitheatre on campus when the Steve Miller band played the venue. His words then... are appropriate this morning... Rock on America... but keep your eye on the fox in the henhouse... he already has feathers on his chin.
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