Goddamn it, it's time to stop enabling these fucking Wall Street CRIMINALS

[Sebastian Doyle]

I'm watching these criminal sons of bitches (on Countdown w/Olbermann) tell their lies and attempting to justify their greed, and it's making my fucking blood boil.

It's time to take EVERY LAST FUCKING DOLLAR from these bastards, that they cannot prove came from legitimate means.

Who decides what's legitimate?

Well here's my bottom line.... If what they did wouldn't have been legal before 1981, then it's not legitimate.

Drain their bank accounts. Give the money to the poor.

I don't give a shit if you want to call it "communism", "socialism" "robinhoodism" or whatever, it NEEDS TO BE DONE TO SAVE THIS FUCKING COUNTRY, and it needs to be done NOW.

And it's exactly the reverse of what these thieving bastards have done to us for the last 28 years. :grr:

[AtomicKitten]

1. Giving the money to the people to pay off credit cards and student loans

would have the same effect. It would lift everybody's boat, but the powers that be aren't having any of that, are they?

[Sebastian Doyle]

3. That should have been the first thing Geithner did.

Actually, it should have been conditional on the thing passing in the first place when it was in the hands of Chimp & Paulson. Sending any money directly to Wall Street was bullshit.

[AtomicKitten]

10. and a half

I'm looking forward to seeing the genius of giving $$$ to idiots that are probably not solvent with no controls on how they do business. :mad:

[Loge23]

2. I'm totally with you on this

They should be arrested. Their assets should be seized.
It's revolutionary, yes. But we sorely need major change.
They have destroyed our economic system.

[Sebastian Doyle]

7. Absolutely right.

And what a lot of people seem to miss is that this shit didn't start with Chimpy. It's 28 years of this crap, not just 8. Systematically tearing down everything that made this a great country, and sadly getting away with it.

[salguine]

4. So who's with me!?

[Sebastian Doyle]

5. Well, that's the last resort.

I'd rather watch those bastards live in poverty for a while, and see how they fucking like it.

Here's Mike Malloy's take.....

Insanity

The CEOs of eight major banking institutions sat before Barney Frank's House Committee today and seemed shocked - shocked! - that anyone would think they had anything to do with the end of capitalism we are now witnessing. It was black comedy without parallel.

Meanwhile, President Obama continues to push a "stimulus" program that simply does not address directly the meanest aspects of the current financial chaos: mortgage foreclosures. Until this issue is confronted by re-financing mortgages, making cash payments to keep people in their homes, forgiveness of missed payments, whatever it takes, this crisis will continue and worsen.

Yes, there are other issues left behind by the Bush Crime Family that are slowly rotting the core of this country. (Was there any area of governance the Bush thugs did not corrupt, destroy, make toxic?) Demanding immediate attention are the critical issues of the evaporating job market, the enormous deficit, the incomprehensible national debt, the failure of every regulatory agency in government to do its job, an ever-growing mountain of credit card debt that simply will not be paid, the list is endless and it cannot be repaired. It cannot be repaired. No matter how much money is thrown at these crises, the system cannot be repaired .The system itself must be replaced, beginning with an end to the rapacious banking and predatory financial service con games that together have destroyed capitalism sooner than it would have destroyed itself.

Why is this reality not being addressed? What needs to happen here to drive home the essential point that capitalism as it has been known for the past two centuries is dead. Do we have to experience a national catastrophe so profound it will make the iconic Great Depression seem like an historic blip on the global economic continuum? Apparently, we do. And the crashing of the U.S. economy we are now both witnessing and being absorbed by will viciously accommodate.

And our political leaders? It's astonishing the depth of their denial, the theatrics of their hearings, and the futility of the legislation the Republican swine attack as "liberal," and the Democratic "centrists" fervently advocate as the only alternative to "catastrophe."

Until we truly face the reality that the system cannot be repaired we are going nowhere. We are a snake swallowing its own tail. We are a blind man lost in a coal mine at midnight.

It may be time to follow Thomas Jefferson's suggestion regarding the tree of liberty.

Ya' think?


- MDM

[MichiganVote]

6. Jail. Its the only thing that gets through their thick arrogance.

[leftstreet]

8. Kill Capitalism!

[AndrewP]

9. You got that right. Unchecked Capitalism fucks everyone but 1%

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

11. What you propose would, of course, do more to destroy the country than save it

The prohibition of ex post facto laws is a key principle of our system.

The Constitution is still worth a little something, even after all it has been through.

[Waiting For Everyman]

13. Another "key principle" in our system... Fraud voids all contracts.

And everything that follows from a fraud is void as well. That's verbatim what we were taught in Contract Law courses.

[RepublicanElephant]

12. wall street will continue to be enabled as long as

they pay protection money (political contributions) to both parties.

maybe it's time to "nationalize" campaigns, kinda like the british.

[Fly by night]

14. Here's a suggested read

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5030829

One piece of advice: don't drop the soap in the showers.

[hologram]

15. Where the hell is Batman when you need him?

:grr:

[Bluenorthwest]

16. Batman

Batman's too far to the left, does not attend an approved church o' hypocrisy, and hangs with a cute boy. All of these things make him the enemy of the possible.

[hologram]

17. LOL!!

:rofl:

[Sebastian Doyle]

18. Actually, Batman is a billionaire defense contractor

Or at least Bruce Wayne was in the recent movie versions. So that would make him part of the problem, unfortunately. The nature of his relationship with Robin is irrelevant one way or the other, as is his religion.

[Cha]

19. Have you seen this from moveon.org?

Conservatives in Congress will try to stop everything Obama does—unless they feel heat from voters back home. Can you chip in $15 to run ads telling their constituents how they voted on Obama's stimulus?


Click Here

Dear MoveOn member,
Most Americans support President Obama's stimulus plan, yet conservative Democrats and Republicans got away with slashing key parts—billions for education, green jobs, and health care—in favor of tax cuts for the rich.1


Why? Because they think most voters will never know. So we're ready to run ads telling the public how key senators—both Republican and Democrat—voted on the stimulus bill. Can you pitch in $15 to launch this accountability campaign?

https://pol.moveon.org/donate/jobs.html?id=15559-8049715-O_wvzJx&t=3

Politicians are used to lots of pressure before a vote, but they don't expect accountability after they vote. Their votes have life-or-death consequences for real people—and they should have consequences for lawmakers, too.


Think about it. Most voters will just hear the news headline: "Congress passed Obama's stimulus plan to create millions of jobs and rebuild the economy." Sounds great! But they'll never know if their own senator or representative voted to help them in tough economic times or not. The stimulus will be a huge help, but it could have helped even more if conservatives hadn't cut job-creating investments.


Elected officials count on this voter ignorance when they vote against the interests of the people they represent. But we can change that calculus.


Can you contribute $15 to run ads letting voters know who stood with Obama to create badly needed jobs—and who stood in the way?


https://pol.moveon.org/donate/jobs.html?id=15559-8049715-O_wvzJx&t=4

Thanks for all you do.

–Noah, Tanya, Marika, Justin and the rest of the team

Source:
1. "Poll: Obama Stimulus Effort Backed By Huge Majority," The Huffington Post, February 9, 2009
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=51175&id=15559-8049715-O_wvzJx&t=5

[Skidmore]

20. That's really hard to do when so many of those criminals are

the same people you've rubbed elbows with at parties and dinners. Besides we wouldn't want to humiliate these pillars of the community. Would we? We wouldn't want them to experience true deprivation and discomfort do to any of our actions.

[debbierlus]

21. It won't happens until it completely breaks us -

There needs to be a MASSIVE outcry against this -

But, there isn't. Even on DU, you can't point out the insanity of the Geinther appointment and rally support to pressure Obama to fire him and change track.

We are going over the cliff. The bailout will break us.