So why the great real estate heist?

[Skidmore]

This is a question I've had in the back of my mind for a while. What did these people want? Property or just money? I don't see them building or investing in the property they have stolen. They aren't building factories on it or businesses even. They aren't selling it or leasing it so that people don't go homeless. I do see them sitting on piles of money. What purpose did this serve to these robber bankers?

[Tunkamerica]

1. They're building spaceships to avoid Nibiru's return in 2012

[katnapped]

2. They want it ALL

Useless proles having ANY wealth are a potential threat to the nobility. Besides, much easier to control them when they have nothing!

[hobbit709]

3. Until the serfs realize that they have nothing left to lose.

[BR_Parkway]

6. That's the part of history they always forget about.

[Le Taz Hot]

4. To drain the wealth from the U.S.

and invest it in China. "They" would never dream of risking their own monies, that's what taxpayer funds are for. That and personal wealth of the middle class.

[ixion]

5. The so-called 'Ownership Society' more aptly titled

the 'Pwnership Society' was a swindle enacted to launch the Neo-Feudal Age.