BTW, I highly, HIGHLY recommend it to anyone who hasn't seen it. Highly entertaining and educational, with terrific performances by Christian Bale, Steve Carell, and everyone else involved.

Anyway, I loved the scene where Carell's team is leaving the hotel in Vegas and we see the SEC investigator kissing the Wall Street banker just before she gets into a cab and he gets into a limo, implying that she literally just slept with him.

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This is pretty much the accumulative effect of years of Reagan inspired anti-government rhetoric, as planned in the Powell Memo.

Not to mention the fact that GOPers have succeeded in instilling in the minds of people that government doesn't work by getting into government offices and not making it work. Rather than being watchdogs of business, government has become caretakers of business.

The fear of failure is palpable. We are now nothing more than an oligarchy.

'political revolution,' because the ONLY thing that can reverse this is massive pressure from a newly aware and enraged American populace. We have to stand up. Yeah we got fucked by the Powell Memo and Reagan's message, the rise of the neoconservative and neoliberal movements. Yeah we did.

Because we simply laid down for it - we elected increasingly mediocre people to office, then simply crossed our fingers and hoped for the best.

Well, the best ain't gonna happen unless we force it to through massive and peaceful civil unrest. That is what Bernie is saying, and I agree.

does blaming "rhetoric" that was "inspired" by a guy who was president 30 years ago really cut it as an excuse?

And the fact that everyone else took the money, and would fight for their owners against any reckoning for their crimes.

I don't blame Obama as much as the whole rigged system.

Banksters buy politicians until we stop them.

No politician is going to go after them after they paid for the said politicians campaign.

No one, and I mean no one will ever prosecute bankers for making money through crony capitalism in this country.

Unless there is some sort of revolutionary sea change where the vast majority of Americans decide that anything and everything that can be done to reverse the decades long upward redistribution of wealth to the richest of the rich, we shouldn't expect anything to change.

Money and power have cemented the oligarchs and the banks into their exalted positions.

Frankly, until we start building guillotines, they have nothing to be afraid of.

I just wonder if there's any hope of recovering from this debacle.
It's a cancer eating us alive from the inside.

Because we ALL know why they haven't been punished. The Kings and Queens NEVER punish themselves.

Did anyone really expect anything else in a plutocracy?

So say the Republicans/Libertarians/Third Weigh.

Sad thing is, they're probably right. The fact that what they did IS likely perfectly legal (and too complex for the average sportsbar schlub to understand) is proof positive this dirty system needs to be reformed. And everyone will be waiting mofos if they think the P90X Ryan Congress is getting going on that project any year soon.

pay no attention to the fact the AGUS was formerly a corporate laywer. and is one now.

For those without integrity, a pot of gold awaits...

Will it ever end?

Just Because Corruption Is Legal How Do We Justify It? How Should We Stand For It? Allow It?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/125210380

We see it from the outside. The financial services industry counts on it to continue doing business as usual. For agency lawyers, it's a way to make their way into the revolving door. This federal government is unbelievably corrupt where big money is at stake.