Yes, it's Sunday, there's football on TV, there are youth soccer games to go to, and the mall...then tomorrow it's back to the grind, whatever you need to do to keep food on the table and the rent paid.
But guess what's happening while you're doing that? Someone's making decisions that are changing the world that you live in. Their decisions may serve you, and they may not. If you don't lend your voice to the conversation then you're saying that you can't be bothered, or you don't care, or that you trust your government officials, their appointees and business partners to act in your best interest.
Oh, how I wish I thought that. Oh how I wish I could afford to think that. But people don't have jobs, people don't have equal rights, and rich men are sitting on their duffs (getting richer) while families are getting shoved out of their homes. What exactly am I talking about?
Remember those Investment banks that "we the people" helped to bail out? Well, here's how they're responding in kind (sic). Watch Representative Marcy Kaptur tell Bill Moyers about the treatment her constituents are getting from JPMC (which got a 25 BILLION dollar loan from us).
The big bankers are continuously adding insult to injury. Goldman Sachs CEO Blankfein says the firm got no special treatment during bailout and he intends to pay bonuses this year. Just read the article in WSJ of 10/10/2009 titled "The bank everyone loves to hate". "Goldman Sachs-Government Sachs". Its connection: Former treasurey Secretary Hank Paulsen (once a Goldman CEO) and other alumni who, as Washington officials, had hands in last year's financial operation. The slogan is "too big to fail" is phony, aimed to save the company that Paulsen left in financial disaster and his big retirement bonus. A writer in the Rolling stone magazine likened Goldman to a "great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relenlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money".
Posted by: Observer | October 11, 2009 at 10:45 PM