surgicalstrike
06-19-2011, 10:18 PM
..by director Charles Ferguson. Anyone else see it?
How the hell does nobody go to jail over all this $$$ fuck up? C'mon, labeling (known toxic) junk bonds as triple A investments, deregulation of former 'safeguard' policies (now begging to be put back) and the continuous Wall Street shell games.
The whole mess reeks of a giant 'ponzi' scheme. It's outright stealing...and to think of all the hard working families and the elderly/retired get left with shit on a stick.
I especially liked how the Dem's and Rep's hire the same crooks year after year. I used to think Greenspan was a genius, as well I believed in the top economic university TEACHERS of Harvard, Yale, Columbia etc.
Now I see they're ALL full of shit.
I found this interesting by Dr. Ellen Brown...
Benjamin Franklin's Solution
"Nationalization has traditionally had a bad name in the United States, but it could be an attractive alternative for the American people and our representative government as well. Turning bankrupt Wall Street banks into public institutions might allow the government to get out of the debt cyclone by undoing what got us into it. Instead of robbing Peter to pay Paul, flapping around in a sea of debt trying to stay afloat by creating more debt, the government could address the problem at its source: it could restore the right to create money to Congress, the public body to which that solemn duty was delegated under the Constitution.
The most brilliant banking model in our national history was established in the first half of the eighteenth century, in Benjamin Franklin's home province of Pennsylvania. The local government created its own bank, which issued money and lent it to farmers at a modest interest. The provincial government created enough extra money to cover the interest not created in the original loans, spending it into the economy on public services. The bank was publicly owned, and the bankers it employed were public servants. T he interest generated on its loans was sufficient to fund the government without taxes; and because the newly issued money came back to the government, the result was not inflationary.7 The Pennsylvania banking scheme was a sensible and highly workable system that was a product of American ingenuity but that never got a chance to prove itself after the colonies became a nation. It was an ironic twist, since according to Benjamin Franklin and others, restoring the power to create their own currency was a chief reason the colonists fought for independence. The bankers' money-creating machine has had two centuries of empirical testing and has proven to be a failure. It is time the sovereign right to create money is taken from a private banking elite and restored to the American people to whom it properly belongs."
How the hell does nobody go to jail over all this $$$ fuck up? C'mon, labeling (known toxic) junk bonds as triple A investments, deregulation of former 'safeguard' policies (now begging to be put back) and the continuous Wall Street shell games.
The whole mess reeks of a giant 'ponzi' scheme. It's outright stealing...and to think of all the hard working families and the elderly/retired get left with shit on a stick.
I especially liked how the Dem's and Rep's hire the same crooks year after year. I used to think Greenspan was a genius, as well I believed in the top economic university TEACHERS of Harvard, Yale, Columbia etc.
Now I see they're ALL full of shit.
I found this interesting by Dr. Ellen Brown...
Benjamin Franklin's Solution
"Nationalization has traditionally had a bad name in the United States, but it could be an attractive alternative for the American people and our representative government as well. Turning bankrupt Wall Street banks into public institutions might allow the government to get out of the debt cyclone by undoing what got us into it. Instead of robbing Peter to pay Paul, flapping around in a sea of debt trying to stay afloat by creating more debt, the government could address the problem at its source: it could restore the right to create money to Congress, the public body to which that solemn duty was delegated under the Constitution.
The most brilliant banking model in our national history was established in the first half of the eighteenth century, in Benjamin Franklin's home province of Pennsylvania. The local government created its own bank, which issued money and lent it to farmers at a modest interest. The provincial government created enough extra money to cover the interest not created in the original loans, spending it into the economy on public services. The bank was publicly owned, and the bankers it employed were public servants. T he interest generated on its loans was sufficient to fund the government without taxes; and because the newly issued money came back to the government, the result was not inflationary.7 The Pennsylvania banking scheme was a sensible and highly workable system that was a product of American ingenuity but that never got a chance to prove itself after the colonies became a nation. It was an ironic twist, since according to Benjamin Franklin and others, restoring the power to create their own currency was a chief reason the colonists fought for independence. The bankers' money-creating machine has had two centuries of empirical testing and has proven to be a failure. It is time the sovereign right to create money is taken from a private banking elite and restored to the American people to whom it properly belongs."