One of the most hardbody scenes in the Dark Knight movie is when the Joker presides over a pile of burning cash. Something like a few million or a billion. The amount was astronomical, but what made the scene all the more perverse was the realization that dawned on you that the Joker never even gave a fuck about the money. It was never about the money to him at all, but the thrill of watching everyone else squirm, yell and scream because the cash was all that ever mattered to them.
I feel like I am witnessing that scene all over again except the Joker is now replaced by a faceless giant called the banking industry which takes money from the government, the insurers and from me, all simultaneously. While still keeping a straight face and telling me that it is out of money. The banks aren’t out of money. I am out of money. I am the one who needs the government bailout. I’m buying a loaf of moldy raisin bread for a quarter out of the back of some African lady’s minivan. I’m buying warm coldcuts from some Puerto Rican guy on a skateboard.
Meanwhile, the banks are playing everybody for chumps because we are. And its our own fault too. We are the ones that preferred the convenience of plastic to paper. With all of this convenience comes a price.
That bill hasn’t arrived yet.
I just said to my husband that Heef had to off himself after that Joker role…there was just no where else to go but insane. Anybody that accepts a bonus from a company that they helped drive into the ground should be prosecuted and there should be class action suits against all of the bastards, personally!
The bill has not come, but the check is already in the mail…
And that price is inflation 3-5 years from now.. D’oh.
Down withe Federal Reserve (which is not federal at all)…well maybe thats taking it to far…but how bout this?…Lets actually make it into a FEDERAL RESERVE and not a private entity and then fix interest rates in order to maintain the value of the dollar….oh shit that wouldn’t work because 1 thats called socialism and 2 rich people wouldn’t keep getting incredibly richer. oh well lets all just live with the system we have….white power…
DP, you did it again. You’re right on point “That bill hasn’t arrived yet” and when it gets here, watch out. If we think we got problems now…..
The inflation is here right now. 5yrs from now could be food riots. Okay, maybe nothing that cataclysmic but there is a brazen greed that is still in effect that means no one has learned their lesson.
I liked Bill Mahers idea of killing to prominent and irresponsible bankers and hanging their bodies on the Wall Street. To quote J. Stewart..”It’s not a fucking game.”
mercilesz,
Did you ever check out the relationship of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York relationship with J.P. Morgan Chase?
I think the populist stance that the Obama administration is fake as f*ck. I’m sure that they are fully aware of banking executive perks and bonuses. Just because they got an influx of operating capital doesn’t necessarily mean they’re going to abandon their standard operating procedures. It is not like they plan on changing or reforming the banking system.
Personally I think there’s more to the story than simply waving a finger at AIG executives and calling them naughty.
^ You better believe there is some other shit being cooked up.
yeah Vee i have thought about that. The original robberbarons in this country all got together and formed the fed reserve after they amended the law in the 1880’s that gave corporations the same rights as people therefore making their companies virtually unfuckwitable. in the early 1900’s Woodrow Wilson let them form the fed reserve and let thme create 3 depressions in order to satisfy their coporate greed. FDR made interest rates static and brought the country back and in the late sixties rates began to fluxuate again….and i dont have to tell you what happened after that cuz we are living in it now. Every prosperous society since Sumeria has had a fixed interest rate but then you get the Medici in Italy with their fluxuating interest rate and yeah they got rich as hell but Italy suffered. All european central banks have followed that model(i include America when i say European) and all European nations have had serious depressions which in some cases didnt even allow people to feed themselves. This has been a public service announcement from ur Homeboy Mercz…and Im 5000.