WHY WE HATE THEM: Mistreated Customers Fuel Populist Rage by Ted Rall

[Paranoid Pessimist]

http://www.uexpress.com/tedrall/

Ted Rall nails it. If only we had some way of responding to the selfishness and crookedness of these large financial institutions. They have us by the economic short hairs and, short of some total world society-changing revolution, there doesn't appear to be much we can do about it.

I follow this issue and, despite all the articles and documentaries, I still don't know whether it would be best to keep shoveling money at the financial industry or let the "too big to fail" guys go on ahead and fail. Whichever, the senior management class will not be hurt, will keep on living the good life. To me they're like the mafia with the Vegas casinos, skimming off the cash before the count and bewildering the regulators with confusing complexity.

The regulators have been like bogus security guards, there to give the appearance that they're watching out for trouble but not really doing so.

I'm expecting a total global financial crash and burn, but as always I hope I'm wrong.

[RaleighNCDUer]

1. There's always the 'Fight Club' solution. nt

[FiveGoodMen]

2. That's too much like what BushCo did in 2001

[RaleighNCDUer]

3. Well, in Fight Club they did clear the insurance companies' buildings

before leveling them.

[FiveGoodMen]

4. Yeah, that was an improvement

In a commentary they said that the building collapse graphics took as long to finish as the entire movie. (Started when filming started and completed just in time to get into the release.)