Look at the news today, some ridiculous "Giving Pledge" where the oligarchs donate their wealth that they make through visa abuses, derivatives, insider information/deals, political corruption, crony capitalism, etc. But in order to varnish their images after destroying hardworking Americans and others across the globe, they donate money in their own names to charities, in addition to naming charities and foundations after themselves.

http://blogs.wsj.com/emergingeurope/2013/02/19/russian-oligarch-joins-u-...

Save the charitable donations and self-love, how about you don't steal or make the billions on the backs of struggling and utterly destroyed fellow citizens? How about Bill Gates, you let Americans actually find jobs in their own country and make enough to feed themselves and one or two kids without demanding even more cheap labor? How about the Oracle of Omaha doesn't have annual conventions to kiss his ass and avoids making billions on insider deals with Goldman and the US Government? These vultures get rich off the flesh of their own Nation and have the nerve to donate their ill-gotten wealth in their own names to make themselves appear benevolent. No more.

Oligarchs' charitable giving? Pablo Escobar also gave to certain segments of Colombia and made sure people knew who did it, did that erase his actions? But that use of wealth, power, and making sure people knew his name when the donations were made sure does have a familiar ring.

The millions of seniors that were booted out of the workforce as the economic recession began to squeeze businesses for profits is a study that I would love to see. Age descrimination is truly rampant. A once proud, hard working mass of seniors have been slaughtered in the last 5 years.
The sad fact is that older employees became the number one target when it became time to reduce a companys workforce. Most of these unemployed terminated seniors had great value regarding work ethic and skills. Then why would the older employee be cut of out of the work force.
Cold hard profits!!!
Age cannot be suspended or reversed. Data clearly reflects more health costs as a person enters their senior years. A high number of these senior employees had given their blood, sweat and tears to improve their skills and upward mobility within their company thus....they were among the higher paid employees within most companies. The EEOC of our government is a joke when it comes to enforcing age descrimination. Millions of us out here have had our pride and spirit severly damaged by their companys cunning and unlawful processes that were used for termination or layoff.
Our naivety that we would be treated fairly through these tough times was our largest mistake. The burden of proof has shifted to the employee to prove age descrimination. We did not see it coming. We had no idea our employer would be so ruthless and unerhanded in their tactics to avoid any age descrimination repercussion. We didn't carry a hidden voice recorder as our employer harassed us and made false accusations about our performance. We failed to collect documentation that would clearly show the employer using false and harassing tactics to build their case of termination. We were under the old patriotic mindset that the U.S.A. would never allow greedy Corporations to target the older generation knowing the they were the most vulnerable. Many of us have gone through the trauma and embarassment that we can no longer be the proud provider for our families and are beginning to get our spirit back. Our numbers are large...millions of us babyboomers! I for one will be involved in activities that will change the way our older generation is treated. Seniors are not dummies and we are not going to lay down and watch our country make a mockery of itself.

Our esteemed politicians have essentially outsourced the middle class. The low end, high school educated blue collar workers, or whats left of them at least, are in a special protected class called Unions and still making a good living. But the white collar professional types, formerly making nice six figure salaries have been outsourced due to Nafta other new world order multinational agreements. They did everything they were supposed to - got into a good college, studied hard, and graduated with a difficult technical degree. But today its all for not. Engineers with 20 years experience are booted to the curb as their parent companies move work to China or India. I've heard stories through executive search firms of how highly educated and experienced professionals (Masters level and PhDs) simply cant find a job. These folks are in their prime earning years and should be contributing to the growth of the economy. Now they are relegated to working in Starbucks or Boston Market as managers. Where are the politicians fighting for them? Where are the sad news stories about a masters level educated mechanical engineer out of work for 4 years as his firm went global with its R&D department. As I see it, the unemployment jobs numbers are vastly worse than they are being reported by the media, as its now the media's job to clothe their emperor.

Regulators were so involved with Wall Street that possibly if lawsuits were filed in criminal court the regulators would also be found guilty. We need an independent commission and courts free of politics and corruption, but that is a dream.

If Glass-Steagall was in place and most importantly, they finally banned certain derivatives which clearly have contagion, system risk baked right into them in part due to faulty models (CDS), this disaster would have never happened.

This is not a business cycle, or normal ebb and flow, but a financial sector generated disaster which they actually lobbied Congress for and got around 2000.

It is astounding considering the damage done that these people were not tarred and feathered globally. They didn't even lose their jobs and they are busy setting up the same rigged house of cards again. They trashed the global economy for Christ sakes and "Dodd-Frank" is the result? Are you kidding me?

In the future these times will be seen as a fantastic study in money controlling the debate. Banksters are deemed the "best and brightest" despite the endless failures and bailouts they require, to say nothing of their actual crimes. But anyone asking that money managers and CEOs that screw up, lose money, and need taxpayer $ to survive actually be held accountable, lose their jobs, and not earn such ridiculous sums of money are labeled "Commies," "hippies," and "lazy." Now this comes from people that were often born into wealthy and connected political circles that often feed at the government trough (e.g., political families that have endless generations in both D & R). But their families still deny cronyism and nepotism aid them.

Look at salaries. Banksters and their press always claim they deserve everything. If they get a bonus even though they screw up and destroy companies, it's because they deserve it. If they have jobs in which they get 4 weeks vacation and never break a sweat (literally), it's because they are so much smarter. If they earn $1 billion as fund managers, it's because they deserve it and are working "smarter."

Compare that to the minimum wage debate. Look at the wages needed to barely survive in cities across the country. At a bare minimum probably $12/hr. for one person living in hellhole apt. that excludes entire areas of the country that must be within walking distance of a job. But if he dares complain or people say the wage is too low, the response from the establishment/banksters is stop whining, get another job, work smarter/harder, work your way up. They honestly don't care that hours are purposely kept down to avoid benefits. That people can't get second jobs when their 1st job requires on-call commitments. That jobs that pay so little often cause injuries that bankrupt people with no benefits.That people didn't plan on working for less than $8/hr. when they invested their lives and time in Masters and PhDs. That someone didn't know they would be fired and be deemed "overqualified" at 40 when they got married and had one kid (yes, these folks actually bemoan people for having a kid and being unable to predict they would be unemployed at some point in life). That managers purposely fire people if they start making too much money or don't hire people that might rise in the ranks in the first place.

The message is the same - the banksters at the top are the best and brightest despite the fact they screw up, break laws, fail all the time, and need handouts from taxpayers. And the average person that wasn't born into connections and doesn't break laws or ever lobby Congress (even simple letters are ignored) is always lazy, always ignorant, always begging for handouts even when he/she literally collects nothing from the Government and can't convince anyone in power to care.

Tell a lie long enough and control entire media empires and people will start buying it, especially when the oligarchs do everything they can to keep people unemployed and desperate to survive.

I'm sure their corporations are trying to claim now Singapore is full of stupid, fat and lazy people, as they tell us here in America and that's the reason they must fire their citizens and replace them with foreign guest workers.

It is a global agenda, to labor arbitrage and displace, as well as a clear objective of India. They think labor arbitrage is "services" and displacing citizen workers is "trade". Trading people is not trade, unless one wants to look at the slave trade.

We can have millions protesting but it is to no avail. Remember the orchestrated shutdown of OWS?

Why just last week Lloyd Blankfein of Government Sachs or Goldman Sux was meeting with Obama and helping sell out American workers in the name of "immigration reform" and "fiscal cliff talks."
But I guess Goldman is still doing "God's Work" aka operating a criminal cartel. Because Goldman is connected to an account in Zurich that just got frozen by the SEC pending an investigation into insider trading. Apparently Goldman was recommending a "sell" to its clients on Heinz, when just before the Heinz merger, massive call options were purchased in a Zurich Goldman account.
Aren't the crimes by Goldman numbering in the hundreds or thousands by now? And yet they are still allowed to exist and conduct business and dictate our Nation's policies. What's crime and criminality anyway, it's all about $ and access and self-serving politicians getting rich (as yet another Congressman was busted for using $750,000 in campaign cash to buy all sorts of crap). Politicians and Wall Street - they never worry about anything even when they break laws and get rich at our expense. The only people suffering are the good, honest people that did everything they were supposed to. So why bother behaving anymore? Just get screwed in the end anyway unless . . .

One problem with the Wall Street casino is that the Federal Reserve keeps them above water with their low interest rates. Time to cut Wall Street loose to float or sink from their actions.