Taibbi: A Christmas Message From America's Rich

[kpete]

A Christmas Message From America's Rich
POSTED: December 22, 9:05 AM ET

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People like Dimon, and Schwarzman, and John Paulson, and all of the rest of them who think the “imbeciles” on the streets are simply full of reasonless class anger, they don’t get it. Nobody hates them for being successful. And not that this needs repeating, but nobody even minds that they are rich.

What makes people furious is that they have stopped being citizens.

Most of us 99-percenters couldn’t even let our dogs leave a dump on the sidewalk without feeling ashamed before our neighbors. It's called having a conscience: even though there are plenty of things most of us could get away with doing, we just don’t do them, because, well, we live here. Most of us wouldn’t take a million dollars to swindle the local school system, or put our next door neighbors out on the street with a robosigned foreclosure, or steal the life’s savings of some old pensioner down the block by selling him a bunch of worthless securities.

But our Too-Big-To-Fail banks unhesitatingly take billions in bailout money and then turn right around and finance the export of jobs to new locations in China and India. They defraud the pension funds of state workers into buying billions of their crap mortgage assets. They take zero-interest loans from the state and then lend that same money back to us at interest. Or, like Chase, they bribe the politicians serving countries and states and cities and even school boards to take on crippling debt deals.

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[phasma ex machina]

1. Using a central bank to rob the 99% is not my idea of "being sucessful."

It's simply criminal.

[MedicalAdmin]

2. We still control to our market and safe shores.

These non citizens need to be shoved over the border and shunned. No more government contracts, no safe havens, no access to our markets without huge tarriffs, no skippIng taxes.

And any politician that takes their bribes should be placed in prison forever at hard labor. Hand 'em a shovel and a leg iron and make them build infrastructure until they drop ... And then work them some more.

And if they don't like that idea then we can do to them what the IDF did to the Munich terrorists: hunt them down like the dogs they are.

A quick note to the NSA/ DHS / etc agent reading this. By "we" I mean we the people and not vigilantes.

[90-percent]

3. Greed

At the heart of it, these Captains of Industry are indulging themselves in naked greed for it's own sake.

It bears repeating; just how many jets and yachts and homes and Maybach's do these fuckers need to be happy?

Their relationship to the servitude of their desire for wealth is akin to that of a crack addict in service to their pernicious and evil drug.

These fuckers should be shunned from all of society.

-90% Jimmy

[sulphurdunn]

4. I hope Jews

don't get blamed for this sort of thing again. The fact that the majority of these crooks are Jewish won't be lost forever on the goose-steppers and cross burners outside their gates.

[phasma ex machina]

5. The nominally Christian J P Morgan is only too happy to let the nominally Jewish Goldman Sachs take

the heat.

That's how banksters do each other. Regarding any perceived Jewish solidarity, Sadducee banksters crucifying Christ for upsetting their profitable money changing says it all.

[raouldukelives]

6. Every dollar invested in Wall St is a vote

to keep things going just as they are. It allows the common person to profit from all the heinous methods employed by the corporations and to do so under the guise of fiduciary responsibility.
It baffles me really. I see the corruption and destruction delivered to the world by Wall St and it sickens me. It makes me want to shout them down, to protest and picket the loss of lives, forests and oceans. Others say, 'Hey! I'd like a piece of that! That's a nifty return!".