Wall Street has truly enraged the masses

[tabatha]

By Susan Hanley Lane
Life in the Middle
Published: Monday, November 7, 2011 at 9:39 a.m.
Last Modified: Monday, November 7, 2011 at 9:39 a.m.

At last. After putting up with years of dirty dealing and outright fraud that would make the most seasoned criminals blush, America is calling Wall Street to account. In cities across the country, and now cities around the globe, an army of people have woken up to the sad fact that they've been had.

And, thank God, they're finally mad enough to do something about it. At last, ordinary citizens, the everyday Janes and Johns who keep the workaday world running, have banded together under a unified message: Enough!

The Occupy Wall Street movement is a grass-roots response to the criminal overreaching of mega-corporations that operate not only in America but multinationally. Its justifiable anger reached the boiling point in September 2011 after three years of failure by the federal government to hold the current gang of hucksters on Wall Street accountable for what is perhaps the most brazen rip-off of all time.

Thanks to Sen. Carl Levin and his subcommittee, we have a technicolor trail of evidence that shows how deeply corrupt Wall Street has become. From repackaging faulty mortgage loans and pawning them off to unwary investors, to awarding huge bonuses to the same executives who engineered the whole derivatives scam in the first place, Wall Street banks have engineered a financial earthquake that shook not only America but the entire world.

http://www.blueridgenow.com/article/20111107/NEWS/111109874

[Tippy]

1. K&R.....Better late than never....But there is no guarantee they will do their job

Anyone who loves America I think, would like to save her. But I am no longer sure...It owuld be nice if the founders were able come back and remind us just what the Constitution means and stood for...

[Huey P. Long]

2. Yes they have.

[roseBudd]

3. DUers on Facebook share this on your Wall n/t

[woo me with science]

4. Meanwhile, the Obama administration is busily finalizing an unconscionable settlement

that will let the criminal banks that crashed this economy and left millions in poverty off the hook for an outrageous, insulting 25 billion dollars.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x5050521

[PoliticAverse]

5. Are they 'enraged' enough to vote out the politicians that support wall street bailouts ? n/t

[Fumesucker]

7. That would leave DC effectively empty of politicians with a few rare exceptions.. n/t

[deutsey]

6. K&R