By daga, March 23 at 3:40 am #

@CaptRon.
I agree with both of you, pretty equally except for your comment ‘it’s only money’. Although it just may be one of the starting points of issues that abound today like weeds left to grow as they will, some prick eons ago invented the concept of money or rather someone decided to pretend that something like gold was far more valuable than anything else, so people started worshipping gold or the faux importance of gold.
Not knowing the true sequence of events, then the agricultural society was invented when it was found that people as a mass are basically lazy and that if food was ‘grown’ in an area, the people would congregate thus cities are born. Realizing how convenient convenience was, before long the industrial society was born which has now brought us though the nuclear age then into the information age and now into the financial age where money is the convenience that people’s lives are based on.
Now I have considered this the age of cancer, which means the growth of everything except those natural resources that sustain life are now in jeopardy from all those fast replicating cancer cells know as humans. So when ‘money’ is considered ‘it’s only money’ when it has been crafted into such a necessity for living, I lean towards CaptRon’s tirade and venting. And those that have premeditatively brought this financial disaster down on this world are to be treated as if ‘it was only money’ but what it is is that people’s designated life support in this ‘modern’ era is being denied to them, then there is absolutely NO difference than it being any kind of terrorist attack with or without WMD. And those people are far past the point when they should have been called out for their crimes and dealt with accordingly with CaptRon’s deserving full attention. This IS what it means to have war declared upon us all by those few that want it all and they want it conveniently as they can get it.

@CaptRon.

Your displeasure with “the state of the union” comes rather late-don’t you think ?  After 8 years of illegal Wars, rendition, torture and unbridled support for Israel and her genocidal attack on Lebanon and Gaza.  Add to that US’ obstructionism re international problems like climate change, landmines,  cluster bombs,  Law of the Sea , NPT and   transparency in international banking. All of this is a result of American ethnocentricity and misplaced patriotism. Now you find yourselves victims, and finally your “cup runneth over”.  I understand your frustration with these “Robber barons”, but it is just money. The transformation of US into a faschistoid rogue state is far more severe.

Excuse me, you ask people like myself for help, you crap on us, then litigate us thus saying you have been treated unfairly. My patience has worn thin with you people at AIG and those like you. There will be a revolution directed at people like you, not vigilanteism but I’m sure you can’t run far. You smug bastards belong with Bernie. I would rather bailout the companies you swindled than to give in to you. I want to see you materialistic jerks punished, and the punishment I wish for you is the looks you get from your family when everything is taken from them and they know it was because you didn’t care enough to consider them. I want them pennyless and poor. I want them to have to beg for help, only to be ignored. I want them to look at you and know it was your fault. I want you to know it was your fault, that because of your actions they are without dignity, like your kind forced many others to have to experience. ENOUGH!!

The empire has 2 new places to send troops to ,the lobby of AIG, and the federal reserve bank, a little shock and awe would be good for them.

From a bank that launders the CIA’s drug money you were expecting morality -even decency. Dream on. Having said that, this gang of crooks can’t be allowed to go under because if they do they’ll take everyone’s pension fund with them, not to mention God only knows how many businesses around the world. Once this crisis is over, you need to think about regulating the corporate world: that is if you want to become a democracy.

I’m amazed that so few even mention one tiny little detail…

AIG IS SUPPOSEDLY 80% OWNED BY THE GOVERNMENT.

I’ve heard this twice on TV and radio. I have no way (& no desire) to research the veracity of the claim -I’m not enough of a masochist to go looking for truth amongst armies of professional liars.

By PSmith, March 21 at 3:40 am

You say allowing a criminal venture such as aig to survive and most assuredly to continue sucking the life out of the people financially is better than to let them and the others fail, die, crash and burn and then NEVER allowed to recover to continue their samo BS is worse?
You have a good idea about how false our economy has been ever since that treasonous traitor woodrow wilson signed the Federal Reserve Act in 1913, confiscation of all gold and a now a private corporation with NO and I MEAN NO accountability to anyone anywhere, dictates how much money we HAVE to borrow to put us further in debt to their lousey asses and we have to continue this? I say NO WAY, LET them die then we can ‘theoretically’ rebuild it with hopefully the proper safe guards to prevent the neocons from continuing to steal and destroy this country. I firmly believe bankruptcy as bad as it is is better than a nuclear blast. But there is so much tied up in this that the demise of those institutions that brought this on is most essential for a proper recovery. By then I would suspect a lot more people will be aware of that requirement for a well functioning democracy, eternal vigilance by a healthy reporting media of conscienious people, otherwise this country will still be the ‘rope-a-dope’ victims of the financial world or ‘elite’.

Criminal Prosecutions Under RICO, which lead to the collapse of the US eocnomy (Treason) and the Glaobal economy which has endangered if not directly caused the Deaths of people around the World (Crime against Humanity). How many new Homeless related to the foreclosures died of exposure this past winter- ‘No room at the inn’. How many people,children, died due to lack of healthcare coverage- because of job loss and inability to afford COBRA? How many were not provided charitable donations of food or medicine, because Americans have had to cut back on such contributions just to survive themselves?
So go ahead and Sue US-We’ll Freeze it and Seize it when we level RICO charges, but more poignant is the fact-  You can’t take it with you when we execute you for High Crimes- good Luck with that lil’ lawsuit!

The audacity of these people is unbelievable. We have a norwegian saying for this kind behavior. Much is lost in translation, but it is something like this: “Like crapping on taxpayers doorstep,whereafter they knock on the door demanding to be handed toilet paper”.

For Christ’s sake, just let me go under.