Has done so much harm to the national interest, such as allowing multinationals to avoid taxes. What a whiner, he pays just 15% as it is, and we're not even mentioning the loopholes which allow him to pay little. What has been his tax bill?
Simple and effective. And as for "best and brighest," how many of those at the top made billions while doing nothing (e.g., inheritance), very little (e.g., sitting in front of computers or bribing politicians), or actually destroyed $ (e.g., losing money on derivatives and bad trades). And "working harder," same thing. A coal miner isn't making Blankfein or Paulson or Hannity money, but something tells me he's definitely working harder. Maybe those guys could prove us wrong, maybe they could handle a couple of minutes in a mine or laying down asphalt before passing out and demanding $10 million - $ 1 billion for their time before their own crews turn on them. Maybe Meg Whitman or Murdoch could actually handle bricklaying, roofing, or teaching kids in a high school that has shootings and stabbings. Let them try.
If you have an education that cost any amount of money and can't find a job in your own country, basically the message is clear - just die already because no one in power cares. And in blue collar gigs, same deal. Back in the day, jobs were available in every field for people with all sorts of education. If you were in college, you could walk in to a construction firm, get hired for the summer the same day, and they'd have no problem with the education or the fact you'd leave. Same with farm work. Painting, stock work, warehouses. Every American could find jobs for summers, during school, whatever. Wages were decent too. Now Hershey's brings in foreign students to drop wages in Pennsylvania instead of hiring American college kids. Non-skilled foreigners get visas.
Look at what's happened. Wages are the same in these jobs and have decreased. Employers refuse to even entertain applications from all walks of life. Application process is ridiculous and only works to keep HR looking busy. And labor arbitrage from construction to law to health and engineering and military contractors is rampant.
We've been sold out, slandered (the whole "jobs Americans won't do" insults us all that have busted ass in every field throughout our lives), and have been told to just die already. But, but, we should open up businesses according to them, because selling stuff on eBay will feed us or competing against corporations that control our government is actually possible (?). Sure, I'll go ahead and open up an oil company or start a pharmaceutical company. Granted, I don't have any training or education in those fields, but I'm sure the government will help me so my friends and I can compete with those welfare beneficiaries Exxon and Merck. Any field I retrain in (at my own expense, of course), someone with more resources and lobbying groups will just make sure I can't make living in and will absolutely refuse to hire me if I'm too old, or earned too much ever in my lifetime or if I might question visa abuses.
There are only so many times people with degrees and skills can keep spending their own $ to retrain, retrain, and retrain again before they realize multinationals have no intention of hiring them, ever. When an ad says they want someone that is fluent in Hindi, or Mandarin, or Spanish, it's not because they want a citizen to learn those languages, so spending a dime to study those languages is a waste because it's not meant for citizens, it's a bar to keep citizens from getting hired (even Americans fluent in those languages because of their families will lose out to foreigners). But no doubt a 50 year old with a PhD and 25 years of experience in civil engineering and bad knees with a shrinking bank account will be told to retrain to be a truck driver or mow lawns to make a living or go to North Dakota (despite no $ to move and a house underwater). These stock answers are insulting and ignore the truth - that 50 year old will never be hired again, someone cheaper will replace him/her from overseas, and that American's experience and education will be wasted and sidelined to America's detriment.
There are ways to bring it to its knees (legally). Look, as soon as "overqualified" was introduced into this country's lingo, we were FUC***. I mean what country honestly allows corporations and governments to promote dumbing-down and mediocrity?
And if this country is going Roman Empire circa 400 A.D., British Empire circa 1900-1945, etc. at least the honest + good people can fight, fight, and fight some more. If we're doomed, oh well, but the sell-outs and cowards can go along for the ride, the people locked out of jobs and hope and see that honesty pays jacksh*t can have some fun as the Titanic sinks because of hubris + corruption + idiocy. Hey, if the captain's drunk and insane (not saying the Titanic's captain was either), let's show the world it wasn't our fault.
The problem is the government structure, itself and money in politics. The system is so corrupted, rigged a real representative getting elected has hardly any chance and even if that person is elected, 435 representatives where there is yet another power player pecking order, same with the Senate. They used to form caucuses but lately it seems those groups are almost for show. Now we have some seriously crazy Republicans who clearly don't know even basic economics 101 running committees. Honestly, I just have no idea what it would take to get the country back but if we're looking at banks running the entire globe, betting on Greece to fail then demanding austerity of the people so they get 100% pay out (or 60%) on their bets of Greece's failure...well, it's global domination here and the entire world is really in trouble.
These people don't care about us, how long do our fellow CITIZENS have to rot and die before most people figure that out. How many long-term unemployed have to become homeless before it's obvious DC just doesn't give a sh*t. The local capital also doesn't give a sh*t? What?! Shocking?! But, but, less regulation. Really?! But, but, "hope and change." Really? Clue in.
Nope, f it. Politicians are narcissists by nature - it's what they do, who they are. Same with banksters. Same with people that rely on banksters or politicians for jobs (e.g., Holder, Geithner, etc.). To continually look to those people for reform or help is to look to Alice in Wonderland for instructions on logic - it's fruitless. It's a good thing people like me are few, have low IQs, and don't care about fellow Americans, because if we had writing skills, had semi-decent IQs, and cared about our fellow Americans (even if that meant we care about AMERICA and not PROFITS), we might actually formulate plans that would f' these bastards hard. Hmmm.... I wonder, do any long-term unemployed have skills in media, or politics, or law enforcement, the military, math and science? Do any long-term unemployed have experience getting ignored and screwed by people in the private and public sectors? Do any long-term unemployed close to death that are ignored by friends and family have IQs rivaling those of Einstein, Newton, Tesla, and da Vinci? Eh? You're godda** right they do - and perhaps they have something to say. "Overqualified" though they might be to work as a cog in Douchebag, Inc., I think our country might like to hear from them.
"But, but, Blankfein makes so many millions - he must be smart. But Holder is in power, he must be ethical." Yup, morons can get free money from the Fed, create monetary instruments they don't even understand, write laws, and still lose money on them because they are absolutely idiotic. People can get into power because they are idiotic and corrupt. In fact, it's a prerequisite. Look around you. I'd trust a long-term unemployed citizen to run my country before I'd trust a politician, bankster, CEO, or HR puppet to watch a $1 bill for 5 seconds.
with a gun vs a typo on their legal papers, or by denying that they received a payment when the homeowner has the receipt in hand, or the others who died by suicide, seeing no hope in their future, such as these.
There are tens of thousands of others among the people who used to live in the 6 million homes that these bastards have foreclosed on, many defrauded in an ongoing and government-enabled criminal conspiracy. Their health issues are far more prevalent and deadly than in the rest of the population, ongoing, and many times accompanied by the loss of their health care, persistent homelessness, and poverty from which they will never recover.
There is nothing nonviolent in the actions of the banksters and their collaborators.
Some are claiming a third of that is retirement, but I don't think so, not from other LPR's by age and overall population growth figures. I need to dig in and do another detailed number crunching but generally speaking LPR is way too low.
On job openings, every month I focus on how hiring has only increased < 20%, sometimes just 14% since the job slaughter low point of 2009. I think the hires rate is way more important than the openings rate, since we know corporations put out bogus job recs for which they have no intention of hiring anyone, or put out bogus job openings for which they fully intend to import a foreign guest worker exclusively for.
Absolutely amazing that population keeps on going up, more immigrants, labor participation rate goes down, and propagandists says things are good because of some trivial drop in unemployment rate. Saw somewhere else that numbers of people holding two jobs was really high - that's a great tell as to what kinds of jobs are being added (i.e., jobs that don't equal 40 hours + benefits by themselves).
I like the JOLTS stats too. While 3+ people may officially be available per position, that ignores the fact that entire segments of the population are actually ignored completely (e.g., unemployed, over 40, veterans, etc.). So while 1000 people may apply for a certain position, in actuality, only 10 people are actually considered by HR. That's why at hiring events you always get stats that show it's harder to get a job at McDonald's than to enroll in Harvard - huge segments of the population will keep applying, never get hired, and the odds of getting a job decrease as few jobs are created.
Ever notice how more words and euphemisms have to be used the higher the corruption and/or incompetence goes? Things are clear-cut, someone works in a store as a manager, turns off cameras, leaves the store, and every single one of his friends comes in and steals everything with his permission, it's clear he's in on it and needs to be arrested.
But in this day and at upper levels of business and government, it's "a leadership problem" or a failure of "clarity" or negligence. Really? No, it's corruption and complicity. Our government allows people it's supposed to regulate to break laws in return for cash and favors of all sorts (e.g., jobs for themselves and friends, contracts, etc.) - that's called QUID PRO QUO. Not that difficult. The more words they use the more obvious it becomes that laws mean nothing, they'll do as they wish and expect us to play along.
These politicians are going to bring this up during the confirmation hearings of the next Criminal Division? Save us the time and money. All these Chiefs and AUSAs and everyone else takes orders from above, like from the AG and Treasury Secretary and WH (ultimately). If they don't play along, they get fired. If they don't want to play, they don't get hired. They are in it to polish their resumes before switching sides into the same banks and big banster-defending law firms and then maybe teach all about "corporate crime" at Harvard or Yale to future banksters in between speeches for $300,000 at Goldman Sachs. Save the words, euphemisms, the mob outside the window knows it's all corruption and crime perpetrated by those on the inside that get rich for doing what we would be in prison for. And the pathetic thing is these people are held up by the media and think tanks (depending on which side is in power and which media outlet or "think tank" is dealing with it) as models of intelligence or hard work. The more convoluted they make things, the more words are used to make crime seem legal, the more obvious it is they are lying through their teeth and breaking laws. These are all hallmarks of Banana Republics.
For non-violent crime or even crime against corporations, I'd be tempted too. It's just ridiculous that some moron who gets a gun and sticks up a 7/11 for $200 bucks is going away for at least 10 years if not life yet if someone puts on a suit and gets an executive position, they will get promoted by wasting $20 billion dollars. Think Jon Corzine.
Right, extreme "right or left", I see mainly corporate lobbyists and their puppets, with a few bold politicians trying to make a stand in the onslaught.
If I am ever called for jury duty again, it won't matter the crime, my vote will be "not guilty". Imagine how much we lose in consumer spending from all the murderers, rapists, pedophiles, spouse beaters, bank robbers (no really, there are people who steal from banks. Though the banks really could give them lessons), kidnappers, etc. No matter how many people are hurt, and apparently the more misery you cause, the less we can afford to send them to jail.
I might change my mind if we elect a Democrat to the top position again, as opposed to what we have, but I'm not holding my breath for that one.
If I'm a shareholder in Too Big To Jail (or Investigate or Monitor), I would demand that the overpaid jackasses/CEOs close every single compliance department today ASAP. Fire every single person from top to bottom in compliance, legal, etc. They have just been made utterly useless. Every single one of them is a waste of money. Come join the unemployment lines.
They serve no purpose because law enforcement and the government (here and abroad) have said they are free to do as they please and will not be stopped. So fire them all now and give the shareholders the money in dividends, not CEO bonuses.
Go ahead and launder money for drug traffickers, ramp it up 1000X. Forge everyone's signature. If North Korea wants to use their headquarters as military bases in the US, let them - no one will stop them. Do as you please - the US Government that no longer represents citizens has said it's okay. But first, fire every single person in compliance and law - they have been called out as useless.
I'd like to see Eric Holder and everyone else replaced with H1B visa recipients in the US Government. Let's get the same level of non-performance without the blatant corruption for 1/10 the pay. It's only fair. That goes for everyone ignoring bank crimes in the DOJ, Treasury, State Department, Commerce, and on and on. I'm sure Bill Gates and Murdoch would approve.
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And as for every state AG that's not doing anything, what's the excuse now? The Feds have just admitted they are okay with international crime that threatens our Nation and other nations. So exactly why are they doing nothing and collecting salaries? Maybe it's time for them to be replaced by H1Bs too, because they certainly don't want American citizens that give a crap to fight banksters. Everyone of them, completely and utterly useless. "Overqualified?" Hell no, these people have no qualifications, let alone integrity.
Even when the banks were getting bailouts, their lobbyists keep humming and Congress didn't do a thing to stand up to them. What a golden opportunity missed to clean up the corruption and influence.
This statement is so outrageous, the banks cost the economy $22 trillion yet to claim they cannot do anything about their reckless derivatives or money laundering fraud, when that is what is hurting the economy is astoundingly ridiculous.
Scary "logic" (aka corruption) by an AG. Let's break it down for those still thinking the blue or red team has their backs because they still refuse to see the obvious. Read any comment section on CNN or other channels to see it splits into that tried-and-true distraction within 2 comments no matter what the article covers.
Here it goes:
1) Banksters get rid of laws they don't like (e.g., Glass-Steagall) and break many, many other laws they can't eliminate.
2) Banksters get richer than ever. Banksters cause global collapse of economy because they really aren't "the best and brightest" and admit they don't even understand the very things they create and profit from (this will get you fired from a lemonade stand, but not from running international companies).
3) Taxpayer bails out banksters thanks to bankster lobbyists and corrupt politicians; gets nothing in return and is still on hook for bank failures due to FDIC program.
4) Banks and other corporations make record profits, banksters get bonuses, taxpayer becoming long-term unemployed and poorer as companies lay off more people, demand more deregulation.
5) Government (both Democratic and Republican) refuse to go after banksters or to even enforce simple laws that apply to every single average citizen.
6) Banksters contribute and control both parties.
7) Banksters continue traveling world, continue to break laws in many countries, get richer.
8) EU, the US, and other countries globally still in peril and increasingly so as banksters increase bets on derivatives, continue breaking laws.
9) Lobbyists and corrupt politicians and officials demand banks be left alone and be treated as deities above mortals. Government now admits the obvious - it won't go after banksters because that would endanger the economy (ignoring truth - it's all about $ and corruption and revolving door/connections).
10) Government puppets don't mention how hundreds of millions of long-term unemployed globally and disappearing middle classes in the US and abroad won't do the same exact thing (and also the fact the normal citizens never broke any laws).
11) Government and banksters continue making money for corruption and crimes, middle class disappears, and no one in power does anything to punish the wrongdoing quickly + effectively. Everyone in power blames everyone but themselves for state of affairs, and don't really care about anyone but themselves, relatives, and cronies.
These banksters and their supporters are akin to parasites. The patient is good and healthy. The parasite gets too big, the patient almost dies. Instead of destroying the parasite and removing it from the host, a doctor decides to make the parasite even bigger and tells the patient to feed the parasite, even thought the patient gets weaker and poorer. The patient struggles to live, gets weaker over time. The parasite at some point close to killing the host. Doctor tells patient, "Well, if I remove it now, it will kill you. Best to ignore it." Yup, that's brilliance at work. And these people have jobs in the public and private sectors and make more money in both (through revolving door policies) then we can ever imagine. Isn't it great? Well, off to the soup line that they want to eliminate because feeding people is so 1930s.
Hasn't any government official heard of the FDIC? Can't we use these to put the banks under government regulation as the FDIC was designed to do? Pathetic excuse Holder.
DHS wants me to see something, say something, well, I just did. No one told me that only applied to certain criminals and groups while others could do as they please (while being backed by my taxpayer/FDIC money, thank you). Who knew my taxes would help aid international criminals? So I help aid criminals, but then my taxes have to fund law enforcement to ignore the very same criminals? That can't be right.
Look, I don't plan on laundering money for terrorists or drug traffickers. I'm not going to forge thousands of documents to foreclose on properties. I'm not going to rig LIBOR rates. I'm not going to rig commodities. Not going to trade on inside information. I'm not going to bribe officials. Not going to launder money for corrupt officials. And I'm certainly not getting rich, and certainly not getting rich by doing those things.
But I want to speed when no one is endangered, I want to drink when it suits me in public. I want to get disorderly when I feel like it. I want to buy a Big Mac and shove it in Mayor Bloomberg's face without being threatened with gun violence by armed goons. I want to drink 64 ounces of sugary goodness and smoke as much as I want all day, every day, and give myself a coronary right there in the streets of New York or any other American city. I want to blast my music (Rage Against the Machine seems appropriate) all day and all night without being hassled if my neighbors are okay with it. And yet that's too much to ask in this country because I'm the lawbreaker?
Equal before the law - bullsh*t. Time for public disobedience on a massive scale (if people can tear themselves away from the Kardashians long enough and clue themselves in) because why do we have to follow their rules when they admit they are above the very laws they help create. Helping drug traffickers, murderers, terrorists, forgery, theft, perjury is okay as along as the big banksters do it? And attorneys and law enforcement actually take our $ for "law enforcement" and "justice" while admitting they won't enforce the law or seek justice? Really?
I want my money back now, no, I want my country back now. Time to seek the return of salaries from thousands of officials, agents, attorneys, etc. They aren't doing anything for the $, refuse to do anything, so give it back now. They have admitted they will not perform their duties.
These people really are that stupid and corrupt. Gosh, enforcing the law has a "negative impact." What are the consequences when someone in law enforcement actually tells criminals that control trillions of dollars that they can do whatever they please? Hmmm, what would be the global consequences then? What message does that send to people that used to respect the law? To criminals? To people that never thought about crime but are being punished for being ethical and law-abiding? To people that are increasingly losing any faith in this government? Well, we're going to find out real soon.
We really need to start telling our kids to forget all that "right and wrong" stuff. It's all crap, pure crap. Be a banker so you can rape, pillage, and steal. No need to have a brain or ethics, just a willingness to screw your fellow man wherever he is. Money talks, justice walks.
Warren doesn't have her Senate site together but she did issue a statement:
If you are caught with an ounce of cocaine, there is a good chance you will go to jail, she noted. However, if you are a bank that “laundered nearly a billion dollars for drug cartels and violated international sanctions, your company pays a fine,
We officially have two sets of laws in the United States. One for the poor and another for the rich and powerful.
I find it sad that one of the 1st female CEOs cancels a policy that is geared towards working mothers. Typical. But mediocrity and sociopaths rewarded in corporate cultures has been going on for a long time.
Seriously, it's all a sick joke. Give me someone that can think, write well, and conduct good, solid research (in whatever field), and that person will do well in most fields. Granted, some people do very well in the maths and sciences, and some do better in the social sciences/humanities, but there's so much a critical thinker with a solid base of education can achieve in any number of fields. Well, nowadays that whole concept is pissed on and disregarded. Broad thinkers and people that can educate themselves (for $0 thanks to the Internet) are absolutely viewed as a threat and can't get past computer screening and then really, really intimidated HR and potential managers. It's all leading to mediocrity now, utter destruction very soon. But you'll have many people that could do great things giving the middle finger to the Bozos that locked them out. Remember when Renaissance Man meant something? Now it's a relic of the past.
Has done so much harm to the national interest, such as allowing multinationals to avoid taxes. What a whiner, he pays just 15% as it is, and we're not even mentioning the loopholes which allow him to pay little. What has been his tax bill?
Simple and effective. And as for "best and brighest," how many of those at the top made billions while doing nothing (e.g., inheritance), very little (e.g., sitting in front of computers or bribing politicians), or actually destroyed $ (e.g., losing money on derivatives and bad trades). And "working harder," same thing. A coal miner isn't making Blankfein or Paulson or Hannity money, but something tells me he's definitely working harder. Maybe those guys could prove us wrong, maybe they could handle a couple of minutes in a mine or laying down asphalt before passing out and demanding $10 million - $ 1 billion for their time before their own crews turn on them. Maybe Meg Whitman or Murdoch could actually handle bricklaying, roofing, or teaching kids in a high school that has shootings and stabbings. Let them try.
If you have an education that cost any amount of money and can't find a job in your own country, basically the message is clear - just die already because no one in power cares. And in blue collar gigs, same deal. Back in the day, jobs were available in every field for people with all sorts of education. If you were in college, you could walk in to a construction firm, get hired for the summer the same day, and they'd have no problem with the education or the fact you'd leave. Same with farm work. Painting, stock work, warehouses. Every American could find jobs for summers, during school, whatever. Wages were decent too. Now Hershey's brings in foreign students to drop wages in Pennsylvania instead of hiring American college kids. Non-skilled foreigners get visas.
Look at what's happened. Wages are the same in these jobs and have decreased. Employers refuse to even entertain applications from all walks of life. Application process is ridiculous and only works to keep HR looking busy. And labor arbitrage from construction to law to health and engineering and military contractors is rampant.
We've been sold out, slandered (the whole "jobs Americans won't do" insults us all that have busted ass in every field throughout our lives), and have been told to just die already. But, but, we should open up businesses according to them, because selling stuff on eBay will feed us or competing against corporations that control our government is actually possible (?). Sure, I'll go ahead and open up an oil company or start a pharmaceutical company. Granted, I don't have any training or education in those fields, but I'm sure the government will help me so my friends and I can compete with those welfare beneficiaries Exxon and Merck. Any field I retrain in (at my own expense, of course), someone with more resources and lobbying groups will just make sure I can't make living in and will absolutely refuse to hire me if I'm too old, or earned too much ever in my lifetime or if I might question visa abuses.
There are only so many times people with degrees and skills can keep spending their own $ to retrain, retrain, and retrain again before they realize multinationals have no intention of hiring them, ever. When an ad says they want someone that is fluent in Hindi, or Mandarin, or Spanish, it's not because they want a citizen to learn those languages, so spending a dime to study those languages is a waste because it's not meant for citizens, it's a bar to keep citizens from getting hired (even Americans fluent in those languages because of their families will lose out to foreigners). But no doubt a 50 year old with a PhD and 25 years of experience in civil engineering and bad knees with a shrinking bank account will be told to retrain to be a truck driver or mow lawns to make a living or go to North Dakota (despite no $ to move and a house underwater). These stock answers are insulting and ignore the truth - that 50 year old will never be hired again, someone cheaper will replace him/her from overseas, and that American's experience and education will be wasted and sidelined to America's detriment.
There are ways to bring it to its knees (legally). Look, as soon as "overqualified" was introduced into this country's lingo, we were FUC***. I mean what country honestly allows corporations and governments to promote dumbing-down and mediocrity?
And if this country is going Roman Empire circa 400 A.D., British Empire circa 1900-1945, etc. at least the honest + good people can fight, fight, and fight some more. If we're doomed, oh well, but the sell-outs and cowards can go along for the ride, the people locked out of jobs and hope and see that honesty pays jacksh*t can have some fun as the Titanic sinks because of hubris + corruption + idiocy. Hey, if the captain's drunk and insane (not saying the Titanic's captain was either), let's show the world it wasn't our fault.
The problem is the government structure, itself and money in politics. The system is so corrupted, rigged a real representative getting elected has hardly any chance and even if that person is elected, 435 representatives where there is yet another power player pecking order, same with the Senate. They used to form caucuses but lately it seems those groups are almost for show. Now we have some seriously crazy Republicans who clearly don't know even basic economics 101 running committees. Honestly, I just have no idea what it would take to get the country back but if we're looking at banks running the entire globe, betting on Greece to fail then demanding austerity of the people so they get 100% pay out (or 60%) on their bets of Greece's failure...well, it's global domination here and the entire world is really in trouble.
These people don't care about us, how long do our fellow CITIZENS have to rot and die before most people figure that out. How many long-term unemployed have to become homeless before it's obvious DC just doesn't give a sh*t. The local capital also doesn't give a sh*t? What?! Shocking?! But, but, less regulation. Really?! But, but, "hope and change." Really? Clue in.
Nope, f it. Politicians are narcissists by nature - it's what they do, who they are. Same with banksters. Same with people that rely on banksters or politicians for jobs (e.g., Holder, Geithner, etc.). To continually look to those people for reform or help is to look to Alice in Wonderland for instructions on logic - it's fruitless. It's a good thing people like me are few, have low IQs, and don't care about fellow Americans, because if we had writing skills, had semi-decent IQs, and cared about our fellow Americans (even if that meant we care about AMERICA and not PROFITS), we might actually formulate plans that would f' these bastards hard. Hmmm.... I wonder, do any long-term unemployed have skills in media, or politics, or law enforcement, the military, math and science? Do any long-term unemployed have experience getting ignored and screwed by people in the private and public sectors? Do any long-term unemployed close to death that are ignored by friends and family have IQs rivaling those of Einstein, Newton, Tesla, and da Vinci? Eh? You're godda** right they do - and perhaps they have something to say. "Overqualified" though they might be to work as a cog in Douchebag, Inc., I think our country might like to hear from them.
"But, but, Blankfein makes so many millions - he must be smart. But Holder is in power, he must be ethical." Yup, morons can get free money from the Fed, create monetary instruments they don't even understand, write laws, and still lose money on them because they are absolutely idiotic. People can get into power because they are idiotic and corrupt. In fact, it's a prerequisite. Look around you. I'd trust a long-term unemployed citizen to run my country before I'd trust a politician, bankster, CEO, or HR puppet to watch a $1 bill for 5 seconds.
with a gun vs a typo on their legal papers, or by denying that they received a payment when the homeowner has the receipt in hand, or the others who died by suicide, seeing no hope in their future, such as these.
There are tens of thousands of others among the people who used to live in the 6 million homes that these bastards have foreclosed on, many defrauded in an ongoing and government-enabled criminal conspiracy. Their health issues are far more prevalent and deadly than in the rest of the population, ongoing, and many times accompanied by the loss of their health care, persistent homelessness, and poverty from which they will never recover.
There is nothing nonviolent in the actions of the banksters and their collaborators.
Some are claiming a third of that is retirement, but I don't think so, not from other LPR's by age and overall population growth figures. I need to dig in and do another detailed number crunching but generally speaking LPR is way too low.
On job openings, every month I focus on how hiring has only increased < 20%, sometimes just 14% since the job slaughter low point of 2009. I think the hires rate is way more important than the openings rate, since we know corporations put out bogus job recs for which they have no intention of hiring anyone, or put out bogus job openings for which they fully intend to import a foreign guest worker exclusively for.
Absolutely amazing that population keeps on going up, more immigrants, labor participation rate goes down, and propagandists says things are good because of some trivial drop in unemployment rate. Saw somewhere else that numbers of people holding two jobs was really high - that's a great tell as to what kinds of jobs are being added (i.e., jobs that don't equal 40 hours + benefits by themselves).
I like the JOLTS stats too. While 3+ people may officially be available per position, that ignores the fact that entire segments of the population are actually ignored completely (e.g., unemployed, over 40, veterans, etc.). So while 1000 people may apply for a certain position, in actuality, only 10 people are actually considered by HR. That's why at hiring events you always get stats that show it's harder to get a job at McDonald's than to enroll in Harvard - huge segments of the population will keep applying, never get hired, and the odds of getting a job decrease as few jobs are created.
Ever notice how more words and euphemisms have to be used the higher the corruption and/or incompetence goes? Things are clear-cut, someone works in a store as a manager, turns off cameras, leaves the store, and every single one of his friends comes in and steals everything with his permission, it's clear he's in on it and needs to be arrested.
But in this day and at upper levels of business and government, it's "a leadership problem" or a failure of "clarity" or negligence. Really? No, it's corruption and complicity. Our government allows people it's supposed to regulate to break laws in return for cash and favors of all sorts (e.g., jobs for themselves and friends, contracts, etc.) - that's called QUID PRO QUO. Not that difficult. The more words they use the more obvious it becomes that laws mean nothing, they'll do as they wish and expect us to play along.
These politicians are going to bring this up during the confirmation hearings of the next Criminal Division? Save us the time and money. All these Chiefs and AUSAs and everyone else takes orders from above, like from the AG and Treasury Secretary and WH (ultimately). If they don't play along, they get fired. If they don't want to play, they don't get hired. They are in it to polish their resumes before switching sides into the same banks and big banster-defending law firms and then maybe teach all about "corporate crime" at Harvard or Yale to future banksters in between speeches for $300,000 at Goldman Sachs. Save the words, euphemisms, the mob outside the window knows it's all corruption and crime perpetrated by those on the inside that get rich for doing what we would be in prison for. And the pathetic thing is these people are held up by the media and think tanks (depending on which side is in power and which media outlet or "think tank" is dealing with it) as models of intelligence or hard work. The more convoluted they make things, the more words are used to make crime seem legal, the more obvious it is they are lying through their teeth and breaking laws. These are all hallmarks of Banana Republics.
For non-violent crime or even crime against corporations, I'd be tempted too. It's just ridiculous that some moron who gets a gun and sticks up a 7/11 for $200 bucks is going away for at least 10 years if not life yet if someone puts on a suit and gets an executive position, they will get promoted by wasting $20 billion dollars. Think Jon Corzine.
Right, extreme "right or left", I see mainly corporate lobbyists and their puppets, with a few bold politicians trying to make a stand in the onslaught.
If I am ever called for jury duty again, it won't matter the crime, my vote will be "not guilty". Imagine how much we lose in consumer spending from all the murderers, rapists, pedophiles, spouse beaters, bank robbers (no really, there are people who steal from banks. Though the banks really could give them lessons), kidnappers, etc. No matter how many people are hurt, and apparently the more misery you cause, the less we can afford to send them to jail.
I might change my mind if we elect a Democrat to the top position again, as opposed to what we have, but I'm not holding my breath for that one.
If I'm a shareholder in Too Big To Jail (or Investigate or Monitor), I would demand that the overpaid jackasses/CEOs close every single compliance department today ASAP. Fire every single person from top to bottom in compliance, legal, etc. They have just been made utterly useless. Every single one of them is a waste of money. Come join the unemployment lines.
They serve no purpose because law enforcement and the government (here and abroad) have said they are free to do as they please and will not be stopped. So fire them all now and give the shareholders the money in dividends, not CEO bonuses.
Go ahead and launder money for drug traffickers, ramp it up 1000X. Forge everyone's signature. If North Korea wants to use their headquarters as military bases in the US, let them - no one will stop them. Do as you please - the US Government that no longer represents citizens has said it's okay. But first, fire every single person in compliance and law - they have been called out as useless.
I'd like to see Eric Holder and everyone else replaced with H1B visa recipients in the US Government. Let's get the same level of non-performance without the blatant corruption for 1/10 the pay. It's only fair. That goes for everyone ignoring bank crimes in the DOJ, Treasury, State Department, Commerce, and on and on. I'm sure Bill Gates and Murdoch would approve.
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And as for every state AG that's not doing anything, what's the excuse now? The Feds have just admitted they are okay with international crime that threatens our Nation and other nations. So exactly why are they doing nothing and collecting salaries? Maybe it's time for them to be replaced by H1Bs too, because they certainly don't want American citizens that give a crap to fight banksters. Everyone of them, completely and utterly useless. "Overqualified?" Hell no, these people have no qualifications, let alone integrity.
Even when the banks were getting bailouts, their lobbyists keep humming and Congress didn't do a thing to stand up to them. What a golden opportunity missed to clean up the corruption and influence.
This statement is so outrageous, the banks cost the economy $22 trillion yet to claim they cannot do anything about their reckless derivatives or money laundering fraud, when that is what is hurting the economy is astoundingly ridiculous.
Scary "logic" (aka corruption) by an AG. Let's break it down for those still thinking the blue or red team has their backs because they still refuse to see the obvious. Read any comment section on CNN or other channels to see it splits into that tried-and-true distraction within 2 comments no matter what the article covers.
Here it goes:
1) Banksters get rid of laws they don't like (e.g., Glass-Steagall) and break many, many other laws they can't eliminate.
2) Banksters get richer than ever. Banksters cause global collapse of economy because they really aren't "the best and brightest" and admit they don't even understand the very things they create and profit from (this will get you fired from a lemonade stand, but not from running international companies).
3) Taxpayer bails out banksters thanks to bankster lobbyists and corrupt politicians; gets nothing in return and is still on hook for bank failures due to FDIC program.
4) Banks and other corporations make record profits, banksters get bonuses, taxpayer becoming long-term unemployed and poorer as companies lay off more people, demand more deregulation.
5) Government (both Democratic and Republican) refuse to go after banksters or to even enforce simple laws that apply to every single average citizen.
6) Banksters contribute and control both parties.
7) Banksters continue traveling world, continue to break laws in many countries, get richer.
8) EU, the US, and other countries globally still in peril and increasingly so as banksters increase bets on derivatives, continue breaking laws.
9) Lobbyists and corrupt politicians and officials demand banks be left alone and be treated as deities above mortals. Government now admits the obvious - it won't go after banksters because that would endanger the economy (ignoring truth - it's all about $ and corruption and revolving door/connections).
10) Government puppets don't mention how hundreds of millions of long-term unemployed globally and disappearing middle classes in the US and abroad won't do the same exact thing (and also the fact the normal citizens never broke any laws).
11) Government and banksters continue making money for corruption and crimes, middle class disappears, and no one in power does anything to punish the wrongdoing quickly + effectively. Everyone in power blames everyone but themselves for state of affairs, and don't really care about anyone but themselves, relatives, and cronies.
These banksters and their supporters are akin to parasites. The patient is good and healthy. The parasite gets too big, the patient almost dies. Instead of destroying the parasite and removing it from the host, a doctor decides to make the parasite even bigger and tells the patient to feed the parasite, even thought the patient gets weaker and poorer. The patient struggles to live, gets weaker over time. The parasite at some point close to killing the host. Doctor tells patient, "Well, if I remove it now, it will kill you. Best to ignore it." Yup, that's brilliance at work. And these people have jobs in the public and private sectors and make more money in both (through revolving door policies) then we can ever imagine. Isn't it great? Well, off to the soup line that they want to eliminate because feeding people is so 1930s.
Hasn't any government official heard of the FDIC? Can't we use these to put the banks under government regulation as the FDIC was designed to do? Pathetic excuse Holder.
DHS wants me to see something, say something, well, I just did. No one told me that only applied to certain criminals and groups while others could do as they please (while being backed by my taxpayer/FDIC money, thank you). Who knew my taxes would help aid international criminals? So I help aid criminals, but then my taxes have to fund law enforcement to ignore the very same criminals? That can't be right.
Look, I don't plan on laundering money for terrorists or drug traffickers. I'm not going to forge thousands of documents to foreclose on properties. I'm not going to rig LIBOR rates. I'm not going to rig commodities. Not going to trade on inside information. I'm not going to bribe officials. Not going to launder money for corrupt officials. And I'm certainly not getting rich, and certainly not getting rich by doing those things.
But I want to speed when no one is endangered, I want to drink when it suits me in public. I want to get disorderly when I feel like it. I want to buy a Big Mac and shove it in Mayor Bloomberg's face without being threatened with gun violence by armed goons. I want to drink 64 ounces of sugary goodness and smoke as much as I want all day, every day, and give myself a coronary right there in the streets of New York or any other American city. I want to blast my music (Rage Against the Machine seems appropriate) all day and all night without being hassled if my neighbors are okay with it. And yet that's too much to ask in this country because I'm the lawbreaker?
Equal before the law - bullsh*t. Time for public disobedience on a massive scale (if people can tear themselves away from the Kardashians long enough and clue themselves in) because why do we have to follow their rules when they admit they are above the very laws they help create. Helping drug traffickers, murderers, terrorists, forgery, theft, perjury is okay as along as the big banksters do it? And attorneys and law enforcement actually take our $ for "law enforcement" and "justice" while admitting they won't enforce the law or seek justice? Really?
I want my money back now, no, I want my country back now. Time to seek the return of salaries from thousands of officials, agents, attorneys, etc. They aren't doing anything for the $, refuse to do anything, so give it back now. They have admitted they will not perform their duties.
These people really are that stupid and corrupt. Gosh, enforcing the law has a "negative impact." What are the consequences when someone in law enforcement actually tells criminals that control trillions of dollars that they can do whatever they please? Hmmm, what would be the global consequences then? What message does that send to people that used to respect the law? To criminals? To people that never thought about crime but are being punished for being ethical and law-abiding? To people that are increasingly losing any faith in this government? Well, we're going to find out real soon.
We really need to start telling our kids to forget all that "right and wrong" stuff. It's all crap, pure crap. Be a banker so you can rape, pillage, and steal. No need to have a brain or ethics, just a willingness to screw your fellow man wherever he is. Money talks, justice walks.
Warren doesn't have her Senate site together but she did issue a statement:
We officially have two sets of laws in the United States. One for the poor and another for the rich and powerful.
I find it sad that one of the 1st female CEOs cancels a policy that is geared towards working mothers. Typical. But mediocrity and sociopaths rewarded in corporate cultures has been going on for a long time.
Seriously, it's all a sick joke. Give me someone that can think, write well, and conduct good, solid research (in whatever field), and that person will do well in most fields. Granted, some people do very well in the maths and sciences, and some do better in the social sciences/humanities, but there's so much a critical thinker with a solid base of education can achieve in any number of fields. Well, nowadays that whole concept is pissed on and disregarded. Broad thinkers and people that can educate themselves (for $0 thanks to the Internet) are absolutely viewed as a threat and can't get past computer screening and then really, really intimidated HR and potential managers. It's all leading to mediocrity now, utter destruction very soon. But you'll have many people that could do great things giving the middle finger to the Bozos that locked them out. Remember when Renaissance Man meant something? Now it's a relic of the past.
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