Tal vez sean buenas noticias, tal vez no. By now you’ve heard that the hard times are over and the good times are rolling again. Can’t you tell? For one thing the banks are back in the black thanks to our money and a little book cooking. As New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo points out:
Quote : “JP Morgan earned $5.6 billion, paid $8.69 billion in bonuses and received $25 billion in TARP funding. Goldman earned $2.3 billion and paid out $4.8 billion in bonuses, while Morgan Stanley earned $1.7 billion and paid $4.5 billion in bonuses. Each of those two former investment banks received $10 billion in TARP funding.”
Doesn’t that make you feel good? Something like five thousand Wall Street bankers got million dollar bonuses in 2008. If your unemployment checks are about to run out or if you’re still employed and decided not to retire because your pension is nearly gone all you have to do is think about those bankers and you’ll feel better.
I’ve often wondered how the Land of the Free and Home of the Brave would react if it were raped and pillaged. Now we’re finding out – like a pen of turkeys before Thanksgiving. Wait for the farmer to pour out more feed, get a little fatter, cluck and strut around, peck at other turkeys, and believe all is well. Pero muy pronto van a ser carne asada. Lo mismo como nosotros.
This isn’t just another opinion, it’s a testable hypothesis. As life gets harder for the peasantry the scams will become more open, the collusion of the politicians more obvious, and the payola more obscene. Why bother? It’s pretty much over for the herd. About all that’s left is the skinning and butchering. Even if we wanted to do something about it we couldn’t. Úsanos y nos han matando. |
