Showing posts with label Occupiers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Occupiers. Show all posts

Monday, July 30, 2012

“DiscovertheNetworks.org”; An amazing tool to research and find how the Political Left is interconnected and funded

Straight from David Horowitz.  For those of you who do not already know David Horowitz, he is a former activist for the left.  David was raised by communist parents, and had his own awakening when the US left the Vietnam War.  Once the US military was gone and no longer a threat, the people left behind were slaughtered by Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge.  The activist, leadership of the left, showed no compassion or anger at a “communist” regime’s massacre of it’s own people.  So had he been fighting for a lie?

Yes, Mr. Horowitz, now understood the empty, inhumane and ruthless nature of the movement he had helped.  Since that time he has worked tirelessly to expose the Progressive’s and with this website, he helps you to see the connections, too.  The website is: “DiscovertheNetworks.org.” 

Mr. Horowitz also works under the organization HorowitzFreedomCenter.org, which helps to keep us connected with others who strive to “drain the swamp,” as Nancy Pelosi so adoringly coined.

Use it.  Enjoy it.  Share it.  We the People must expose how they’ve been working in harmony to rustle, wrangle and corral us towards the cliff.

YiT ~  Shelly


Sunday, December 4, 2011

By Jove!, I do believe He’s got it!

This short video is the best illustration of the the dis-similarities of the Tea Partiers and the Occupiers.

Tea Party supporters believe that individual responsibility has been replaced with a big government nanny, who pretends to be able to provide a utopian existence for everyone.  The Tea Party solution is to “cut” government spending, reduce taxes, reduce regulation and unleash the entrepreneurial spirit that thrives in all human beings. When this spirit is allowed to grow and flourish it feeds the ability for anyone to reach as far as they desire to.

Occupy supporters believe that society has failed to provide a big enough safety net to fulfill the dreams of everyone, because the “greedy” do not give enough back to the society that made them rich.  The Occupy solution is to “increase” government spending, increase taxes, and create more regulation. They believe the prevention of an individual from attaining too much prosperity, enforces things to remain “equal” for everyone, regardless of effort and risk. This belief is that equal outcomes will create social justice for all.

How do you spell, “Too big to fail”?  You decide…History has shown that one of these approaches always works and the other always fails.  The common problem for both movements is government.  The solution is as different as night and day.  Constant interference by the government through taxation, fees, and regulation, has created a loss of the individuals right to use their property for pursuit of prosperity for themselves and their family, In retrospect, government has grown so big, so fast, and now has so much debt, even the wealthy cannot repay all that debt.

The only similarity these two movements have is that they both realize that the political system has broken down and become something unrecognizable to the vision of the Our Founders.

YiT,  Shelly


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Friday, November 18, 2011

2012; it’s up to us to fix the Country

2012 is going to be tumultuous for everyone.  With threats of anarchy, protests that are fixing to become riots, a Country that is already $15 trillion in debt (not including the long term debt of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid), unprecedented unemployment, inflation of food, gas and energy that’s crushing the middle class and poor, and to top all that, the Obama Administration, mainstream Media and all dedicated Progressives are encouraging an economic/age class warfare of monumental proportions.

When you think about it all, don’t you wonder how all of this, each a tragedy in their own right, have come together in a confluence of events?  Call me a conspiracy theorists, but I don’t believe any of this is an accident.

Agenda 21 ~ Sustainable Development is due for re-affirmation by the United Nations  in 2012 and their stated goal is unified, global control of “all” property. Are these things related?  Common sense tells me they are, and that darker forces are at work to accelerate this goal.  Do I have any proof of this?  No!  I only have my own brain and a whole lot of things that don’t make sense except for this.  How could so many supposedly bright, no, supposedly brilliant people, be so blind to the needs of this great Country?  These facts belie the truth, and “We the People” need to be especially careful in 2012, to elect representation that understands a Country which needs restoration, not reformation, to prevent further destruction of the U.S. Constitution.

Enjoy this post and be sure to read how the Ecologarcy rejoice at the destruction of the United States economy and steal the hard earned dollars of the working stiffs to fund pie in the sky “renewables” that have no hope of power a nation, Sus Devp (small)let alone the world.

YiT,  Shelly


The Keystone Victory

Mark Hertsgaard

November 16, 2011 | This article appeared in the December 5, 2011 edition of The Nation.


 
Demonstrators march with a replica of a pipeline during a protest against the Keystone XL Pipeline outside the White House on Sunday, Nov. 6, 2011, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
 
Victories against climate change have been rare, so it’s vital to recognize them when they happen. The Obama administration’s decision to delay the Keystone XL pipeline is one such victory—arguably the most important achievement in the climate fight in North America in years.

True, the administration’s November 10 statements did not outright kill the 1,700-mile pipeline, which the TransCanada company wants to build to transport highly polluting tar sands from Alberta, Canada, to refineries on the Texas coast. Yes, President Obama or his successor could try to greenlight the project in 2013, when the State Department’s new review of the project is due. But that’s unlikely, as TransCanada’s CEO, Russ Girling, has acknowledged. The project’s contracts require the pipeline to be completed by 2013, or refineries will be free to look elsewhere for supply, which Girling expects they will.

In any case, such caveats mean only that the Keystone victory is not absolute. But when a $7 billion project involving the number-one US trading partner and oil supplier, a project that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton only a year ago said she was “inclined” to approve, is very publicly postponed—even as the inspector general of the State Department launches an investigation into cronyism involving a former top aide to Clinton—good luck putting that Humpty Dumpty together again.

Click here to read the full story.


Congressional Corruption or COWS?

I’m short on time, but this article is so well written and relevant to what’s happening today, “right now”, that I am doing a quick posting in hopes that it will reach others, who will share it with their contacts.

YiT,  Shelly


How Congress Occupied Wall Street

Politicians who arrive in Washington as men and women of modest means leave as millionaires. Why?

By SARAH PALIN (link to article)

Mark Twain famously wrote, "There is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress." Peter Schweizer's new book, "Throw Them All Out," reveals this permanent political class in all its arrogant glory. (Full disclosure: Mr. Schweizer is employed by my political action committee as a foreign-policy adviser.)

Mr. Schweizer answers the questions so many of us have asked. I addressed this in a speech in Iowa last Labor Day weekend. How do politicians who arrive in Washington, D.C. as men and women of modest means leave as millionaires? How do they miraculously accumulate wealth at a rate faster than the rest of us? How do politicians' stock portfolios outperform even the best hedge-fund managers'? I answered the question in that speech: Politicians derive power from the authority of their office and their access to our tax dollars, and they use that power to enrich and shield themselves.

sarahpalinAssociated Press

The money-making opportunities for politicians are myriad, and Mr. Schweizer details the most lucrative methods: accepting sweetheart gifts of IPO stock from companies seeking to influence legislation, practicing insider trading with nonpublic government information, earmarking projects that benefit personal real estate holdings, and even subtly extorting campaign donations through the threat of legislation unfavorable to an industry. The list goes on and on, and it's sickening.

Click here to read the full article (it’s worth it!).


Tuesday, November 15, 2011

OWS~Anit-Capitalist in the Military?

This is a very recent YouTube clip from OWS where they are having “Teach-Ins” that espouse anti-capitalism.  This video has a moment of truth that the progressive/communist/socialist/marxist/ecologarcists have infiltrated all sectors of government, including our U.S. Military.  The U.S. Military is empowered to protect the U.S. Constitution and should never be allowed to have this type of rhetoric taught to those entrusted to protect the Country.Sus Devp (small)

Just my thoughts…enjoy the video.

YiT,  Shelly


OWS Teach-In for Anti-Capitalism

Monday, November 14, 2011

WOW! on OWS Demands

As always, their own words are far more powerful and explosive than mine.

YiT,  Shelly


Forum Post: Proposed list of OWS Demands

Posted 3 weeks ago on Oct. 23, 2011, 11:21 p.m. EST by bchang1987
This content is user submitted and not an official statement

Repeal the Taft-Hartley Act. Unionize ALL workers immediately.

Raise the minimum wage immediately to $18/hr. Create a maximum wage of $90/hr to eliminate inequality.

Institute a 6 hour workday, and 6 weeks of paid vacation.

Institute a moratorium on all foreclosures and layoffs immediately.

Repeal racist and xenophobic English-only laws.

Open the borders to all immigrants, legal or illegal. Offer immediate, unconditional amnesty, to all undocumented residents of the US.

Create a single-payer, universal health care system.

Pass stricter campaign finance reform laws. Ban all private donations. All campaigns will receive equal funding, provided by the taxpayers.

Institute a negative income tax, and tax the very rich at rates up to 90%.

Pass far stricter environmental protection and animal rights laws.

Allow workers to elect their supervisors.

Lower the retirement age to 55. Increase Social Security benefits.

Create a 5% annual wealth tax for the very rich.

Ban the private ownership of land.

Make homeschooling illegal. Religious fanatics use it to feed their children propaganda.

Reduce the age of majority to 16.

Abolish the death penalty and life in prison. We call for the immediate release of all death row inmates from death row and transferred to regular prisons.

Release all political prisoners immediately.

Immediate withdrawal from Iraq and Afghanistan.

Abolish the debt limit.

Ban private gun ownership.

Strengthen the separation of church and state.

Immediate debt forgiveness for all.

End the 'War on Drugs'

Click here to go directly to the online posting of these demands.

Monday, November 7, 2011

The Mob Rule’s of Occupiers in DC

The Occupiers of “Occupy Washington DC” this weekend apparently took their protest to the annual meeting of Americans for Prosperity.  The AFP organization was instrumental in getting many petitions served onto the politicians as they crammed through the PPACA, and they fought hard for transparency in the process of the Health Care bill’s passage.

The first video is of a handicapped woman who wishes to leave the building, but is prevented from doing so because of the protestors blockade.

The second video is of the same evening, different moment in time, where protestors used children to cause a blockade.  The videographer tries to question why anyone would bring children and expose them to this type of potential harm.  Since a lot of these protests have degraded into violence, it does not make sense that a “caring'” parent would be so irresponsible.  This definitely looks like child abuse to me.

YiT,  Shelly


Handicapped Woman prevented from leaving building by Occupy Washington DC’ers

Occupy Washington DC’ers use young children in their blockade of building

More Pigs at the Trough: “The Price of Free Corn”, by Steve Washam

So tell me, are you able to understand the similarity between the story I’ve posted below and the Occupier’s around the World?

YiT,  Shelly


By Steve Washam, based on a telling by George Gordon

In a realistic style, this story illustrates what the U.S. government and the UN are doing to the people of America and the  world. When thinking of Constitutional violations by our  politicians, think of this parable.

Some years ago, about 1900, an old trapper from North Dakota hitched up some horses to his Studebaker wagon, packed a few  possessions, especially his traps -- and drove south.

Several weeks later he stopped in a small town just north of the Okefenokee Swamp in Georgia. It was a Saturday morning -- a lazy day -- when he walked into the general store. Sitting around the pot-bellied stove were seven or eight of the town's local citizens.

The traveler spoke, "Gentlemen, could you direct me to the Okefenokee Swamp?"

Some of the old-timers looked at him like he was crazy. "You must be a stranger in these parts," they said.

"I am. I'm from North Dakota," said the stranger.

"In the Okefenokee Swamp are thousands of wild hogs," one old man explained. "A man who goes into the swamp by himself asks to die!"

He lifted up his leg. "I lost half my leg here, to the pigs of the swamp."

Another old fellow said, "Look at the cuts on me; look at my arm bit off!"

"Those pigs have been free since the Revolution, eating snakes and rooting out roots and fending for themselves for over a hundred years. They're wild and they're dangerous. You can't trap them. No  man dare go into the swamp by himself."

Every man nodded his head in agreement.

The old trapper said, "Thank you so much for the warning. Now  could you direct me to the swamp?"

They said, "Well, yeah, it's due south -- straight down the road." But they begged the stranger not to go, because they knew he'd  meet a terrible fate.

He said, "Sell me ten sacks of corn, and help me load them into  the wagon."

And they did.

Then the old trapper bid them farewell and drove on down the road. The townsfolk thought they'd never see him again. Two weeks later  the man came back. He pulled up to the general store, got down off  the wagon, walked in and bought ten more sacks of corn. After  loading it up he went back down the road toward the swamp.

Two weeks later he returned and, again, bought ten sacks of corn. This went on for a month. And then two months, and three. Every  week or two the old trapper would come into town on a Saturday  morning, load up ten sacks of corn and drive off south into the  swamp.

The stranger soon became a legend in the little village and the subject of much speculation. People wondered what kind of devil  had possessed this man, that he could go into the Okefenokee by  himself and not be consumed by the wild and free hogs.

One morning the man came into town as usual. Everyone thought he wanted more corn. He got off the wagon and went into the store  where the usual group of men were gathered around the stove. He  took off his gloves.

"Gentlemen," he said, "I need to hire about ten or fifteen wagons. I need twenty or thirty men. I have six thousand hogs out in the swamp, penned up, and they're all hungry. I've got to get them to  market right away."

"You've WHAT in the swamp?" asked the storekeeper,  incredulously.

"I have six thousand hogs penned up. They haven't eaten for two or three days, and they'll starve if I don't get back there to feed and take care of them."

One of the old-timers said, "You mean you've captured the wild  hogs of the Okefenokee?"

"That's right."

"How did you do that? What did you do?" the men urged, breathlessly.

One of them exclaimed, "But I lost my arm!"

"I lost my brother!" cried another.

"I lost my leg to those wild boars!" chimed a third.

The trapper said, "Well, the first week I went in there they were wild all right. They hid in the undergrowth and wouldn't come out.  I dared not get off the wagon. So I spread corn along behind the  wagon. Every day I'd spread a sack of corn.

"The old pigs would have nothing to do with it. But the younger pigs decided that it was easier to eat free corn than it was to  root out roots and catch snakes. So the very young began to eat  the corn first.

"I did this every day. Pretty soon, even the old pigs decided that it was easier to eat free corn, after all, they were all free;  they were not penned up. They could run off in any direction they  wanted at any time.

"The next thing was to get them used to eating in the same place all the time. So, I selected a clearing, and I started putting the  corn in the clearing.

"At first they wouldn't come to the clearing. It was too far. It was too open. It was a nuisance to them.

"But the very young decided that it was easier to take the corn in the clearing than it was to root out roots and catch their own  snakes. And not long thereafter, the older pigs also decided that  it was easier to come to the clearing every day.

"And so the pigs learned to come to the clearing every day to get their free corn. They could still subsidize their diet with roots  and snakes and whatever else they wanted. After all, they were all  free. They could run in any direction at any time. There were no  bounds upon them.

"The next step was to get them used to fence posts. So I put fence posts all the way around the clearing. I put them in the  underbrush so that they wouldn't get suspicious or upset, after  all, they were just sticks sticking up out of the ground, like the  trees and the brush. The corn was there every day. It was easy to  walk in between the posts, get the corn, and walk back out.

"This went on for a week or two. Shortly they became very used to walking into the clearing, getting the free corn, and walking back out through the fence posts.

"The next step was to put one rail down at the bottom. I also left a few openings, so that the older, fatter pigs could walk through the openings and the younger pigs could easily jump over just one  rail, after all, it was no real threat to their freedom or  independence they could always jump over the rail and flee in  any direction at any time.

"Now I decided that I wouldn't feed them every day. I began to  feed them every other day. On the days I didn't feed them, the  pigs still gathered in the clearing. They squealed, and they  grunted, and they begged and pleaded with me to feed them -- but I  only fed them every other day. Then I put a second rail around the  posts.”

"Now the pigs became more and more desperate for food. Because now they were no longer used to going out and digging their own roots  and finding their own food, they now needed me. They needed my  corn every other day.

"So I trained them that I would feed them every day if they came  in through a gate and I put up a third rail around the fence. But it was still no great threat to their freedom, because there were several gates and they could run in and out at will. Finally I put up the fourth rail. Then I closed all the gates but one, and I fed them very, very well."

"Yesterday I closed the last gate and today I need you to help me take these pigs to market."

The price of free corn.


The parable of the pigs has a serious moral lesson. This story is about federal money being used to bait, trap and enslave a once  free and independent people.

Federal welfare, in its myriad forms, has reduced not only individuals to a state of dependency; state and local governments  are also on the fast track to elimination, due to their functions  being subverted by the command and control structures of federal  "revenue sharing" programs.

Please copy this parable and send it to all of your state and  local elected leaders and other concerned citizens. Tell them" Just  say NO to federal corn."

The bacon you save, may be your own.


Occupy Whatcom County Council supported by Councilman Mann??? and City Council Candidate Cathy Lehman???

As always, their words speak louder than mine.Sus Devp (small)

YiT,  Shelly


Occupy Whatcom County Council

Share · Public Event

Wednesday, November 9 · 6:30pm - 9:00pm


Location

Walk from Maritime to County Courthouse

311 Grand Ave

Bellingham, WA


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#occupybellingham


More Info

We need 99 people to gather at the #OB Encampment at 6:30. There will be a brief orientation at the encampment, and then an even more brief walk from the Encampment to the Whatcom County Courthouse... where there will be warmth. Warmth and democracy.
Each person is allowed 3 minutes to speak about any issue they feel is important.

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  • Carrie Lynn

    What will the orientation be about?

    Like · · 5 hours ago

  • Richard May

    while it may be permissable to speak on "any issue", it would be highly helpful if occupy folks would aim for a focused, constructive, specific complaint or demand, so that the general public would have a better chance to understand and learn what the fuss is about.

    Like · · 13 hours ago
  • Shane M Roth

    It is my experience that there is always at least one representative of the 1% at County Council meetings. There needs to be at least 99 representatives from the 99% to achieve equity of attendance at County Council events.

    Like · · 21 hours ago
  • Iris Maute-Gibson

    I'm unfortunately going to be out of town; stay warm and fierce!

    Like · · 23 hours ago
  • Cathy Lehman

    I'll be speaking in the public hearing (and possibly in the open session as well) on behalf of Futurewise. Sounds like we're gonna pull an all-nighter! I'm game.

    Like · · Yesterday at 9:28am
  • Ken Mann

    Technically, I'll be attending...

    Like · · Yesterday at 9:12am
    • 5 people like this.

      • Shane M Roth Ken is excused because he will be in a meeting at 6:30... nonetheless, he will be in the Encampment in spirit.

        Yesterday at 9:26am · Like


Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Veterans call to Patriots

Recently received a notice of this upcoming event and since it’s a bit complicated, but definitely relevant key to not only safeguard the United States, it is a step in the right direction to fix the U.S. economy and grow the “American Dream” for all citizen’s of this great Country.  Please take a moment to read the article and follow the links to determine for yourself if this group and their event is something you can and will support.


Veteran's Day, November 11, 2011

A Foot Soldier’s Call to Save America


 Veterans Day 11-11-11

In the infernal dark night the Obama Regime is hanging on America, the light switch will be turned back on for all to see on Friday, November 11, 2011-Veterans Day.

That’s the day when the drums and fifes of columnist/patriot, JB Williams, retired U.S. Army Major General and senior military analyst Paul E. Vallely, Gathering of Eagles and Eagles Up! organizer U.S. Army (Ret.) Harry G. Riley and Company will drown out the phony bleatings and mindless chants of the Occupy Wall Street malcontents, leading the way to real Hope & Change for America.

Tangible Hope & Change for waiting Americans, not the astro-turfed kind pulled out of an election campaign to dupe the masses.

In a scenario where liberty is fading by day and and one in which the black curtain is about to be brought down on the Constitutional stage, it’s literally Williams, Vallely, Riley and Company to the rescue.  Click here to read the full article.


“A DECLARATION TO RESTORE THE CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC” 

(pdf file of peaceful demands)

Sunday, October 30, 2011

Philosophical take on OWS Manifesto

This is a lengthy but worthwhile video where each segment of the Occupy Wall Street Manifesto is taken apart, word for word, to expose` the fact that OWS is focused on the wrong solution to their “collective” demands.

YiT,  Shelly



Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Who’s behind the curtain of OWS? Meet Lisa Fithian!

Everyday, if take the time to look and research, there is more evidence of the massive amount of planning that has been done to create “Occupy Wall Street” and all of the other “Occupy Protests”.  Lisa Fithian is described as a professional organizer for anti-globalist, anarchists, unions, etc.  The end game for “Sustainable Development”, the “Sustainablists”, is globalism.  Someone should ask Lisa Fithian, why she is either just another of the useful idiots to promote a global push for global-socialism, or she is lying to her supporters as is written in the Saul Alinsky modeling of “Rules for Radicals”.  We all know that there is no greed or corruption in Socialist/Communist/Marxist regimes, right?

Outlining his strategy in organizing, Alinsky writes:

There's another reason for working inside the system. Dostoevski said that taking a new step is what people fear most. Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward change among the mass of our people. They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and change the future. This acceptance is the reformation essential to any revolution. To bring on this reformation requires that the organizer work inside the system, among not only the middle class but the 40 per cent of American families – more than seventy million people – whose income range from $5,000 to $10,000 a year [in 1971]. They cannot be dismissed by labeling them blue collar or hard hat. They will not continue to be relatively passive and slightly challenging. If we fail to communicate with them, if we don't encourage them to form alliances with us, they will move to the right. Maybe they will anyway, but let's not let it happen by default.[2]

For Alinsky, organizing is the process of highlighting whatever he believed to be wrong and convincing people they can actually do something about it. The two are linked. If people feel they don’t have the power to change a situation, they stop thinking about it.

According to Alinsky, the organizer — especially a paid organizer from outside — must first overcome suspicion and establish credibility. Next the organizer must begin the task of agitating: rubbing resentments, fanning hostilities, and searching out controversy. This is necessary to get people to participate. An organizer has to attack apathy and disturb the prevailing patterns of complacent community life where people have simply come to accept a situation. Alinsky would say, "The first step in community organization is community disorganization."

History has proven that top down governments are always corrupt and hold “little” regard for human rights.  The only system that has ever come close to that is the “Capitalist” system.

Enjoy this video and please share it with your friends, family and contact list.Sus Devp (small)

Yit,  Shelly


Monday, October 17, 2011

“Tea Parties & Occupiers have common ground complaints, but opposite solutions!”

This article takes on and analyzes the strengths and weaknesses of both the Tea Parties and the Occupiers, why both groups are righteously mad at the system, but have diametrically opposite solutions to the problem.

The premise is that the system has been rigged to insure that the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.  That is not entirely true.  The rich get richer because they have money and power to effect “politicians” who are micro-managing the economy away from the free markets.  The politicians initial intent may be genuine, but as often happens, their genuine act has driven the U.S. economic model ever closer to socialism.  The wealthy have the ability to influence the government and the government has an ever increasing need for money.  So the outcome of this are these Public Private Partnerships, which sets up an Oligarchy, which leads to a “two” class system in America.  An Oligarchy cannot exist without the consent of the politicians.  The outcome of Socialism and an Oligarchy is that the middle class is being squeezed ever downward.  The solution is not to “nationalize” the economy, but to free up the economy and enable the small businesses and entrepreneur's to breakthrough the walls that this change in our political system has created.

The protesters must be addressed to understand that all of the Marxism that was dished out in their K-12 and higher institutes of education, cannot fix what ails America.  The restoration of our Constitutional protections will require that we peel back the onion and simplify the system.  As it stands now, the system shuts down the vast majority of us who want to be self sufficient, by drowning us in red tape, regulations, permits, fees and all the money needed to grease the skids of the system.  The correction of overt government interference in the private markets,  the simplification of business regulations and taxes will vastly improve the lot of the small business, middle class and the poor.  It will enable us to independently work our way upwards economically, so we can care for ourselves and our families.Sus Devp (small)

YiT,  Shelly


“Finding Common Ground with the Occupiers”

Posted by Erick Erickson (Profile)

Friday, October 14th at 1:16PM EDT

The occupiers think the government should pick the winners and losers and the tea party thinks the free market can.

“But wait,” they say, “the market is not free.” And they are right. But the solution should be to free up the market, not shackle it or nationalize it.

Back in 2009, I asked when the people would revolt. The left went nuts, accusing me of fomenting the very violence they are now fomenting. But this is precisely where I saw us heading. The left has whipped people into a sentiment against Wall Street and bankers and the rich, but as I pointed out then and still maintain, it is the politicians who are to blame. People are reacting now, as I predicted they would, to the tyranny of small things.

The bankers on Wall Street have the same number of votes the rest of us have. But it is the politicians, not the banks, who have made the playing field un-level. And the banks and their derivatives and new fees, etc. are all in response to the playing field being unleveled.

What has happened is government has made it more and more difficult for anyone to make a profit. So the financial industry got more and more creative in trying to make a profit. The house of cards eventually came tumbling down. But it never would have happened, but for the government — from Fannie to Freddie to the Community Redevelopment Act and on and on and on.

Only those with money could stay ahead. To be sure, some of them were crooked bastards who should go to jail along with some politicians. But not all of them or even most of them. More so, many on the left right now ignore the fact that these guys are bipartisan in their giving, if not slightly left, and the Obama Administration has done nothing about them. In fact, many of this administration’s legal reforms have actually benefited the biggest financial service firms like Goldman Sachs.

Click here to read the full story.