Knowledge, knowledge everywhere and not a drop to think

Information surrounds us. It bombards us from boxes and boxes everywhere. It blares, it assaults, slaps,  rings, beeps, it leaks in and sneaks up,,,everywhere. So much information, yet we may be the most ignorant generation of humans to ever inhabit the planet.

It was not the Democrats, nor Obama that set the world on its present course. Despite protestations from the right, every problem America currently faces is a direct result of corporate greed and the Bush administrations loyal service to it.

Banks killed the economy. Banks put ten percent of the population out of work. Banks forced businesses to close. Banks destroyed the housing market. Banks bankrupted millions and put 100s of millions more in a tighter financial situation than what is comfortable. And the Republicans helped them do it by creating an environment that allowed it. By looking the other way. By making it legal to do things that should have been illegal.

Banks perpetrated the greatest crime in American history and got away with it. Because the average human has no clue what a mortgage backed security is; much less how it’s the source of all the world’s financial ills; these crooks have no fear of ever facing their responsibility.

Be clear America. Bush, the GOP and American corporate greed put us where we are today. And somehow the same failed policies that put us here are still being preached as the savior.

Just last week, New Mexico Republican Congressman Steve Pearce tweeted that the folks at Washington Federal wanted fewer regulations.

Great tell them, America’s tax payers want their money back.

And before you tell me the banks paid back the $3 trillion they got in the bailouts, first let me say, “Bullshit!”

We’ll never really know because the way they got the money was so wonky, no one will ever really know. But that’s beside the point. The money stolen from the American taxpayer to prop up banks was for Toxic Asset Relief Program. In other words the money was for the houses for which they had loaned too much money.

What they got to keep was $3 trillion in real property. They still foreclosed on the houses occupied by the very tax payers who got robbed to protect the banks from their crimes. And they still collected mortgage payments from the ones lucky enough to hold onto their homes. And while all this was going on, Republicans were screaming bloody murder and crying that Obama was going to socialize the banks.

He should have. That’s right. I said Obama should have socialized the banks.

They were criminals who committed a crime so large that the only way to avoid total system failure was to steal $3 trillion from hard working people and give it to the very people who caused the problem. Once the problem was averted, they should have been punished. The banks should have been socialized and all their directors stood before a firing squad and executed on CNN.

I’ll make no apologies for the statement. Kill one person in the process of stealing his wallet and you will get the chair in many U.S. states. Banks destroyed  millions of lives. And have no doubts that many actual hard working patriotic American lives ended because of the economic crisis. Banks and their directors deserve the harshest punishment our society allows.
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Nothing I’ve said is new or news yet no one talks about this. Not the politicians, not the media right or left, no one.

So a couple of ideas. Since the banks caused our problems, make them fix it. If the deficit is a problem, tax the banks. If they don’t like it, they can trade jail time until it’s paid. I didn’t like it when they made me pay for their mistakes. So I don’t really care what they like. Banks are state sanctioned criminals and I want that status ended.

And as for you, America, for God’s sake learn. They robbed us because our economy can no longer function without these mega banks. You can fix that. Stop patronizing them. Put your money in gold or in your mattress.

Spend cash. Stop rewarding your oppressors for oppressing you.

Businesses, offer discounts for spending cash. You should do this anyway because the banks charge you 3% for processing a credit card.

And all of you should call your congressman today and demand these criminals be held responsible.