The Democrats' Faux Fight Against the Banks

[Crewleader]

December 17, 2009

Chatting With the Fat Cats

The Democrats' Faux Fight Against the Banks

By SHAMUS COOKE

How pathetic. President Obama sat at a table surrounded by super rich bankers, pleading with them to lend money to small businesses and workers. The media mislabeled Obama’s groveling as “encouraging,” “imploring,” and “pressing,” but a man who refuses to take action is powerless; and powerless people can only beg.

This disgraceful meeting happened shortly after Obama got “radical” on national TV, calling the bankers “fat cats” and other tough words. But words are only that.

In reality, Obama’s sudden attitude with the banking aristocracy is a shallow attempt to re-brand himself, since the American public now sees him for what he is: a willing tool of the banks, military, and the super-rich in general.

Congress, too, tried to re-cast its image with the banks recently. Like the White House, most American workers now understand the two-party system to be an extension of corporate America. Congress was thus pushed to act. What little pushing was done was quickly pushed back by the banking lobby.

http://www.counterpunch.org/cooke12172009.html

[Vinnie From Indy]

1. Our government acts like a prostitute afraid to tell their pimp they don't want to work

Our politicians are an extension of corporate power. It's the river of corporate money that flows through Washington DC. The money is used to entice or destroy.

[natrat]

2. repulsive, it's like being lied to your face and knowing it. The fake populism is horrible.

[roamer65]

3. The banking cartel does what it wants.

They control currency creation itself, so they don't care what any elected official says or thinks.