Who will build fortresses to shield the super rich?

What will be the "great equalizer" in our lifetime against the bankers, who are continually allowed by those in their pockets in Washington?

Rhetorical question?

let them take care of their parents.

I don't think the 99% will ever recover, period, unless we find a way to start throwing banksters in jail.

Throughout human history, the entire function of society has been to enrich the wealthy at the expense of the poor. There have been small populations where this isn't the case, but overall these are statistical anomalies.

We can quibble about the percentages, but unless we undertake a fundamental change in the nature of society, we will continue to be a billionaire bailout society long after the death of anyone now living, just as it has been since long before the birth of anyone's great-grandparents.

The problem is that there was that statistical anomaly for a little while. I grew up during the Reagan era, so I never saw it, but I do see the smug and self righteous generation that did very well and wonder why we aren't now.

We must be lazy whippersnappers or something.

It is the DIRECT RESULT of 30 years of Republican & Republican-Lite
"NeoLiberal" Economic Policy.



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85 Billion Dollars a month, every month of FRB purchasing of "financial assets" from our busted bankers. That 85 billion goes straight into bankster speculation on stocks and commodities, making the already rich richer still. Every time the Fed discusses the possibility of gradually ending this endless outright donation of free money to the banks, the stock market begins to cough and sputter. Then the QE "tapering" talk ceases.

Somebody has to pay for this speculation, and that's you people. You pay for it in inflation in the price of everyday consumption items - food, gas, rent. You know: all the stuff the government refuses to include in its Consumer Price Index statistics. You pay for it in a currency that buys less of foreign goods and services than it otherwise would. You pay for it in the massive lost opportunity costs (to you) of an economy that is organized around the furtherance of financial swindling rather than the production of real goods and services. You pay for it in lingering high unemployment, pervasive marginal employment and a regime of depressed wages.

The Fed could have decided to arrange its bailout of the economy in a way that would reflate the crashed consumer demand - a disaster which resulted predictably from decades of stagnant wages and the increasing accumulation of private debts. They could have cut checks for every household in the US -$85 billion a month- and said spend it wisely, spend it unwisely, but spend it quickly. Instead, they decided to hand it all out to the banksters. The accelerated, record setting high stratification of wealth and income in our society now is the direct result of that policy. And what does the Democratic Party and its leadership have to say about all this? What did they have to say while the crisis was in full crash mode? What have they said right along? Their only response has been to try to put Humpty Dumpty back together just as he was in 2007. In other words, they doubled down on the policies and priorities that caused the crash in the first place and the result is that wealth and income stratification have INTENSIFIED, not abated or reversed direction.

You could say that their total worse-than-uselessness is due to their ignorance. But I would say that their ignorance is all due, rather, to KNOWING. They know well which side of the bread is buttered, and also who butters it for them.