WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE?

I'm simply stunned at the apathy. I just can't get over the ongoing complacency. Is America still at least on the outer fringes of a democracy? The banks, brokerage houses and insurance companies screw everybody over in order to enrich themselves, and, then, when the scam blows up in their faces, the victims, that's us, are told, not asked, to bail the bastards out, there is a deafening silence from the populace. Then, instead of lending out the funds in an effort to get things unclogged in the credit markets, these corporate terrorists hoard our money in order to recapitalize their balance sheets, buy other banks, give themselves bonuses for all their successful enterprise and hold parties for top executives at spas and fancy hotels. All done with our money.


The $700 billion TARP program is just the tip of the iceberg. The feds have given their friends in the banking system access to over $8 trillion from at least 12 different programs. Where do you think that money is coming from? It is borrowed from us and from foreigners, many of whom do not particularly like us, or it is printed. The Federal reserve, that unconstitutional paper company, refuses to tell us who got the money and through what channels. And the banks simply will not discuss the matter. Such "transparency" rivals only Cheney's stiffing the American people about his secret meetings with oil company execs back in 2001. Who do these people think they are?

In France, when the people see political misdeeds or injustice, they take to the streets until the problem is resolved in their favor. In Greece, the shooting of a single policeman causes the masses to demonstrate throughout the country for almost a month. But in America, when our rulers — and believe me, the bankers, the regulators, and the politicians on the take run this country — fleece the masses while lining their own pockets, there is not a peep or a squeak out of the American people.

Failure and mediocrity are being rewarded before our very eyes, and not a thing is being done for the victims. Our money is being used along with some Scotch tape to prop up these institutions, who otherwise, without exception, would be insolvent. What I want to know is where is the outrage?

12/23/2008