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In article <cdmdnSIdu6RSG4zNnZ2dnUVZ_rWdnZ2d@earthlink.com>,
 Dänk 42Ø <dank@kgb.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 26 Jul 2012 17:25:40 +0000, 3082 Dead wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 26 Jul 2012 12:08:16 -0500, Libertarian Lilly wrote:
> > 
> >> A lesson in  irony: The U.S. Food Stamp Program, administered  by the
> >> U.S.
> >> Department of Agriculture, is actually proud of the fact it is
> >> distributing the greatest amount of free meals and food stamps ever.
> >> They even  advertise how to access the program on Mexican  TV!
> >> Meanwhile,  the National Park Service, administered by the U.S.
> >> Department of the Interior,  asks us to "Please Do Not Feed the
> >> Animals." Their stated reason for the policy  is because the animals
> >> will grow dependent on handouts and will not learn to  take care of
> >> themselves. This ends today's lesson.
> >> 
> > Gee, a record number of people who need public aid in order to just
> > survive, and you DON'T see this as a colossal failure of the free market
> > system?
> 
> Idiot.  Just because the government offers free crack money and people 
> take them up on the offer does *NOT* means they *NEED* it.
> 
> In the old days, most Americans had pride and would rather starve before 
> going on the dole.  Today, the stigma of being on the dole has 
> evaporated, and so have the criteria to qualify.  Any fool who can remove 
> his buttocks from the couch long enough to shuffle down to the welfare 
> office now qualifies, and you use the fact that the standards have been 
> lowered as evidence that some sort of "crisis" exists.
> > 
> > Instead, being the fascist dirtbag you are, you just try to compare the
> > tens of millions of people you fucked over to animals.
> 
> No, it is *YOU* who compare people to animals.  Human beings have free 
> will and dignity, animals don't.  Under socialism, people are nothing 
> more than domesticated animals, to be fed, clothed and sheltered by Big 
> Shepherd.

At least the "Big Shepard" was only going to shear them. These bastards 
want to skin us.

Total retirement assets, Americans' second-largest household asset, 
dropped by 22 percent, from $10.3 trillion in 2006 to $8 trillion in 
mid-2008. During the same period, savings and investment assets (apart 
from retirement savings) lost $1.2 trillion and pension assets lost $1.3 
trillion. Taken together, these losses total $8.3 trillion.

The above doesn't include the $9.2 trillion in federal commitment to 
banks as of Oct, 2011.

<http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/elizabeth-warren-libor-fraud-expo
ses-a-rotten-financial-system/2012/07/19/gJQAvDnDwW_story.html>
Libor fraud exposes Wall Street's rotten core
On any given day, $800 trillion worth of credit-related transactions are 
linked to Libor rates.

And who can forget the bailout.
<http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=washingtonstory&sid=aGq2B3XeGKok>
U.S. Taxpayers Risk $9.7 Trillion on Bailout Programs
(Dubya already had driven the bail-out to over $7 trillion.)

A little seedier is HSBC's laundry operation.
In the New York Times business section, we read that the HSBC banking 
group is being fined up to $1bn, for not preventing money-laundering (a 
highly profitable activity not to prevent) between 2004 and 2010, a six 
years' long "oops".
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jul/14/global-financial-fra
ud-gatekeepers>

During the savings-and-loan scandal of the 1980s, a scandal whose 
dimensions, by today's standards, seem almost quaint, the banker Charles 
Keating was asked by a congressional committee whether the $1.5 million 
he had spread among a few key elected officials could actually buy 
influence. "I certainly hope so," he replied. The Supreme Court, in its 
recent Citizens United case, has enshrined the right of corporations to 
buy government, by removing limitations on campaign spending. The 
personal and the political are today in perfect alignment. Virtually all 
U.S. senators, and most of the representatives in the House, are members 
of the top 1 percent when they arrive, are kept in office by money from 
the top 1 percent, and know that if they serve the top 1 percent well 
they will be rewarded by the top 1 percent when they leave office.
 - JOSEPH E. STIGLITZ
an American economist and a professor at Columbia University. He is a 
recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2001) and 
the John Bates Clark Medal (1979). He is also the former Senior Vice 
President and Chief Economist of the World Bank
<http://www.vanityfair.com/society/features/2011/05/top-one-percent-20110
5>

-- 
Welcome to the New America.
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hA736oK9FPg>
or
E Pluribus Unum
Green Party Nominee Jill Stein & Running Mate, Cheri Honkala
<http://www.democracynow.org/2012/7/13/green_party_nominee_jill_stein_running>