Never have so few, done so little, and made so much, while screwing so many...

[SlipperySlope]

I thoroughly enjoyed this article. I cannot vouch for the rest of the site (never visited it before, found the article via a link).

Excerpt:

As our economy hurtles towards its meeting with destiny, the political class seeks to assign blame on their enemies for this Greater Depression. The Republicans would like you to believe that Bill Clinton, Robert Rubin, Chris Dodd, and Barney Frank and their Community Reinvest Act caused the collapse of our financial system. Democrats want you to believe that George Bush and his band of unregulated free market capitalists created a financial disaster of epic proportions. The truth is that America has been captured by a financial class that makes no distinction between parties. These barbarians have sucked the life out of a once productive nation by raping and pillaging with impunity while enriching only them. They live in 20,000 square foot $10 million mansions in Greenwich, CT and in $3 million dollar penthouses on Central Park West.



Full article:
http://theburningplatform.com/blog/2010/08/29/the-age-of-mammon-featured-article/

[LiberalAndProud]

1. I suspect that trend has accelerated in the intervening years.

Especially considering the bailout.

Ours not to reason why, ours but to do or die.

[tcaudilllg]

2. No doubt, a new financial aristocracy has emerged. n/t

[spinbaby]

3. You know, we're always blaming this on the top 1%

But it looks like it's the top 0.01% that's the real problem:mad:

[glitch]

10. +99.99% nt

[madokie]

4. Not good reading this first thing this morning as now I'm boiling ass mad

as in pissed off. We've been 'Strewed' as my brother in law says the word (screwed.) I knew this was coming, that this was happening when we were placing the concrete for all these 4000 plus square feet houses out here amongst us monetarily poor. The houses I was a part of in the building of look out of place as does the foreign auto's this class of people are driving or the airplanes they take to the far off places so they don't have to drive through us little people, they can just fly over our heads to look down and only see the trees, fence lines, fields and rooftops of our tiny, (in comparison) houses. These folks aren't doing their shopping at the local markets they are driving to the city 50 plus miles away and doing their spending of our dollars.

It is and has been for a long long time PITCHFORK AND TORCHES time.
This goes to everyone I knows inbox, I think our President should get this article in his inbox too sent to him by many of us.

Recommended big time. :grr:

[LiberalAndProud]

5. A few Senators and Congressmen need to be educated as well.

[madokie]

6. Yea like all 535 of them

the whole shitpot full of them actually

[unblock]

7. $3 million for a penthouse on central park west? that's practically a steal!

you think i'm kidding.

http://therealdeal.com/newyork/articles/15-cpw-penthouse-closes-for-45m

http://www.housingwatch.com/2010/02/09/flush-from-nbc-payday-conan-lists-cpw-penthouse/

[geek tragedy]

9. Yeah, only in NYC can an apartment be a bargain at $3 Million. nt

[doc03]

8. Why can't the Democrats come up with any kind of

campaign strategy? Just like the Bush tax cuts expiring. The Republicans say if you raise taxes it will cut jobs, simple to the point the average person can understand that. The Bush tax cuts have been in effect for almost the last decade WHERE ARE THE FUCKING JOBS? That is something the average American can understand, instead of some stupid political gimmick that nobody can understand outside of DC.

[SlipperySlope]

11. Who pays the parties bills?

I'm absolutely not saying that the Republican and the Democratic party are equivalent. But both get most of the money from the people who have all the money. In other words, both are tied to powerful monied self-interests.

It's one thing to talk the talk. But it is harder to see our congress taking real action so that the rich and powerful were no longer rich and powerful.

Letting the Bush tax cuts expire doesn't fundamentally change the balance of power. The rich will still be the rich, the poor will still be the poor.

[nilram]

12. It's about my sex life, Doc. I'm getting screwed more but enjoying it less. Do you think it could be

Capitalism??? Oh, no, I must have caught it from the "Invisible Hand!"