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  Forever Blowing Bubbles
I just finished Matt Taibbi's Rolling Stone piece, The Great American Bubble Machine.
I found it a truly amazing piece of journalism - something that ought to be on the required reading list of every voter - every taxpayer. Perhaps most shocking of all, quite apart from the unmitigated greed and psychopathology of the Goldmanite bankers, is the subterfuge, acquiescence and the complete lack of moral courage of nearly all our public regulatory officials and our elected representatives. None of them, it seems, has ever read the Constitution or their job descriptions or taken either of them seriously. More disturbing even than the disgusting behavior of Wall Street and their Congressional enablers is the complete docility of the Amerikan sheeple. Somebody should just distribute bars of soap and ask them all to step into the shower. To a man and woman, they would do it without question. Cap-and-trade is going to happen. Or, if it doesn't, something like it will. The moral is the same as for all the other bubbles that Goldman helped create, from 1929 to 2009. In almost every case, the very same bank that behaved recklessly for years, weighing down the system with toxic loans and predatory debt, and accomplishing nothing but massive bonuses for a few bosses, has been rewarded with mountains of virtually free money and government guarantees - while the actual victims in this mess, ordinary taxpayers, are the ones paying for it. It's not always easy to accept the reality of what we now routinely allow these people to get away with; there's a kind of collective denial that kicks in when a country goes through what America has gone through lately, when a people lose as much prestige and status as we have in the past few years. You can't really register the fact that you're no longer a citizen of a thriving first-world democracy, that you're no longer above getting robbed in broad daylight, because like an amputee, you can still sort of feel things that are no longer there.
- Matt Taibbi We don't deserve universal heath care. Our children should know the real extent of what is means to grow up under the boot of an unbridled Capitalist government. Our children deserve to grow up poor, frightened, stupid and sick. This is the birthright their cowardly parents have bequeathed them. God Bless Amerika!
Peace,
 Robert Boldt an editor of MWC News, is a freelance film/video producer living in Jefferson City, Missouri. He is active in local politics, worked on the Howard Dean and John Kerry campaigns and is a cofounder of The White Rose Collective. Articles by Bob Boldt at MWC News http://mwcnews.net/bob-boldt |
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