I think
that is over the top and inflammatory. How the hell do we dare treat human beings like that, or, even worse, allow others to help it happen in our name in what was the richest country in the world? That is, until the corporations, with the help of elected officials, started moving all the good jobs overseas or across the border so they could make a bigger profit, leaving their ex-employees to freeze in the winter - except for those who are killed when they set their house on fire by trying to burn newspaper in the oven just so they can stop shivering for a few hours. Where the financial industry literally ruins the economy, clearly precipitating the unemployment of 15 million of our neighbors, is directly responsible for creating a bubble that collapses leaving millions of good people without a home or the resources to get another one? A country where
1) 36% can't contribute anything toward their retirement
2) because 61% live paycheck-to-paycheck
3) because 66% of the income growth between 2001 and 2007 went to the top 1% of all Americans
4) and a staggering 43 percent of Americans have less than $10,000 saved up for retirement.
The Federal Reserve Chairman was nominated by President Obama, who nearly any thinking person would support over over any candidate our opponents have ever brought forward. But the Federal Reserve has made public statements, saying the "crisis was caused by the shadow banking system" and the shadow banks "increased the fragility of the entire banking system", and yet for some unfathomable reason this very chairman is trying to re-inflate the very system that has brought so much pain to so many people
here... through their complicity in what Senator Bernie Sanders calls the Great Wall Street Depression. Given those facts, and in the face of the abject misery those institutions have brought to so many people, the fact that someone calls them "corporate whores" seems almost excessively mild. What do you call people who wreck the economy of a country in which 50% of the children need food stamps during a year just to eat, who cry when they leave school on Friday because they know they won't eat again until Monday when the school kitchen comes into view.
Now what do you call people who support them? How could one possibly expect people to be respectful when they are so dis-respected?
Is there a button where I can notify a moderator about this? Where I can have them tombstone a society which makes people live their whole lives, raise their families, pay taxes, give service to the country, teach the kids, dig the ditches - and then be told that for the last few years of their life they can either curl up in a ball and die or get the "good" job standing at the local Wal Mart with a big happy face for minimum wage, part-time with no health benefits, until their back gives out or their arthritis is so bad they are screaming just to try to pull themselves out of bed, or they are coughing so much that they can't catch their breath?
'Cause it's damn well over the top.