It's a wonder they don't explode when sunlight hits them

[Mythsaje]

There are some people, and we all know who they are, that exist solely off the contributions of others. They drain them down to the last drop of blood, sweat, and tears, and leave them naked and trembling in the frigid winter of despair.

They turn away as parents fight for an operation that might save a dying child's life.

They stand unmoved as a man who has lost his job to outsourcing loses the house he's spent the past ten years paying for.

They eagerly grab young, naive victims with promises of easily attained material wealth, and drink deeply of the soaring interests rates on the credit cards they peddled.

They lead the charge for war, wanting the heady draught of black gold with which they can suck the American consumer dry as the desert sands from under which it came.

They gorge themselves on media outlets and spew forth poison rather than useful information.

They grind little businesses into dust under their heels, and spout platitudes about the "free market" when anyone but a moron can see that the market is anything but "free."

There's one glaring difference between these economic vampires and the blood-sucking variety I highlight in my novels. In my books, at least some of the vampires are honorable and decent people.

Economic Vampires NEVER are.

They may not explode when sunlight hits them. But that only goes to prove there's very little justice in the world.

[truedelphi]

1. So little justice, so much bullion to squeeze out of the lower

Economic Classes and hardly enough time in the day to do all the squeezing.

(Love yr website BTW)

[Blue_In_AK]

2. You're on a roll tonight, Mythsaje

I LOVE this stuff. :)

[leveymg]

3. Righteous rant! 5th rec!

Keep 'em coming!

[lonestarnot]

4. Truth Scale of 1-10, this is definitely a 10.

Keep fighting for it.

[formercia]

5. Luckily, most of them would explode

in gated communities where they are not likely do be a danger to the vast majority of Americans.

[radfringe]

6. they use SPF 5,000,000,000,000 n/t

[conspirator]

7. The ONLY solution is to abolish thin air currency. Money is their core tool.

It's not an easy problem to solve. Hope we can find an answer before our planet is destroyed.

[annabanana]

8. They would explode if they were forced to live a "statistically average"

lifestyle for a month.

[elizfeelinggreat]

9. not only that but

they SUCK

[Triana]

10. psychopaths...

...are often CxOs of corporations - and - Presidents (like the current one).

What you write is about total lack of conscience and empathy - that is psychopathy.

If you think all psychopaths are in prison as serial killers and rapists - it's not true.

Most of them are among us - as white-collar criminals.

[Mythsaje]

11. Psychopaths have been running things for thousands of years...

They have ruled in Europe, Asia, and Russia, off and on. They gained high places and great prestige in the Church. They hunted witches, led mercenary armies, destroyed native cultures in the Americas and other places, and basically had a free ride the whole time. Kill one man and you're a murderer. Kill a thousand and you're a king or a general.

So it should come as no surprise that they're still running things. They always have. Democracy is supposed to blunt their power and, to a certain extent, I suppose it does. But they've learned to adapt to new ways of doing things. A sociopath or psychopath doesn't necessarily have the compulsion to kill, but a lack of any ability to see other creatures as separate entities deserving of respect and compassion is part and parcel of their curse.

They are, in a way, no more human than the Terminator.

[femrap]

12. Speaking of psychopaths....

http://www.agoracosmopolitan.com/home/Frontpage/2008/01/02/02073.html

I found this pretty interesting except for the Ron Paul stuff...I don't understand him or his followers. I thought he was a psychopath as well.