Old Geezer Pilot wrote: “From a financial standpoint, we re-elected Bush.”

Also from a military-industrial standpoint.

Isn’t it time you figured out the game is rigged and quit voting in elections where they only candidates with any chance of winning are both pro-war and pro-bailout?

I didn’t vote. I don’t vote in sham elections. Those who do, deserve what they get, but I wish they’d stop dragging the rest of us down with them. When you vote, you’re delegating your power, your “consent of the governed” to the rich. Then they can claim to be a democratically elected government even if 90% of us oppose their policies. If we just stop voting until we can establish a democratic form of government where we vote directly on issues of importance and can hold representatives accountable, the game would be over.

But I expect that the half of Americans dumb enough to vote will believe the campaign lies of the next self-proclaimed savior, and re-elect the haves and the have-mores all over again. Some people never learn.

Congress and the banks are joined at the hip and therefore cannot run away from the banks bad behaviors.  Both the banks and Congress are criminal.  Congress cannot control what the banks do because they are the recessive and dependent twin.  President Obama acts like a wannabe elite, so Washington is in the pocket of the wall street oligarchs.  Continued verbal and written policy opposition has not gotten Washington’s serious attention. I believe that congress is waiting for the people to do the heavy lifting.  Don’t do it.  I believe that we should allow them to rot in their own sewage until this mountain of corruption collapses upon them.  For now, just prepare for the worst locally and enjoy the national dark humor. Allow them to boil in their own rot for laughs.

Tom Jefferson said (confirming that there’s nothing new under the sun) “I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.”

Two centuries later, Lyndon Johnson said that “if this country ever collapses it will be the banks that bring it down.  I didn’t believe it when I heard it from my daddy, but after thirty years of experience I know he was right.”

Outside of Congress, there’s only one other criminal class in America and it’s high finance.

As long as Usury remains, the economy will never improve, it will just keep spiraling around the drain on the way down.

You would think that with all the money the credit card companies made when we took the caps off of interest rates, they would be rolling in the dough.

So why are they going bankrupt, and why are the same people who are struggeling to pay off their credit cards at 35% are going to have to bail those same banks out with their taxes?

Those banks should be required to forgive credit card debt as a part of their bailouts.

They argue that this would make credit more dificult to get for the average person.

Credit cards now have the same reputation as cyanide, anyone who can is getting rid of them, they are financial suicide.

The whole *point* of current policy is to restart the very same diabolical financial engine that tore itself to pieces. Predatory lending is just one of the things banks hope to resume, and although selling worthless subprime derivatives used to be almost impossible, the government has stepped in as the de facto buyer, with little to no preconditions.

  I think we’ll be seeing a lot worse than predatory lending in the future.