THEY BROKE THE GODDAM ECONOMY and RUINED MILLIONS OF LIVES...

[islandmkl]

and you find some 'golden lining' in there to warrant you seeking their support and participating in their 'programs'...

who stood up and said 'Don't let them get away with it...'?

....and who was complicit in the escape?

they got away with it...all the other crap is just camouflage....

[warrprayer]

1. Kick

And rec

[Hortensis]

2. THEY are the goddamn conservatives. Take it to the GD.

[Broward]

4. Yes, the conservatives in both parties.

[islandmkl]

7. unfortunately, 'conservatives' does not apply only to Republicans...

but you know that, don't you...?

[Hortensis]

9. Yes, I do. Nor does hostile, aggressive extremism and

its trademark dishonesty.

[islandmkl]

10. we could probably go back and forth with scalpels all day trying to minimize the fact

that 'dishonesty' is a trademark quality not exclusive to any one group...

I would think there is plenty of data on that...

what would one consider 'hostile, aggressive extremism...' that would be greater than war?

[Hortensis]

16. All are dishonest to some degree, but only

some groups are dishonest as an indispensable working mode. The far right is one. Only think of what the typical tea-partier type believes of left-wing politics or people. They'd need sedation and professional counseling to get through it if somehow they were forced to recognize the world for what it is.

[Bluenorthwest]

12. Ummmm not really. Reagan for example won with lots of 'Democrats' voting for him, it was famous.

I watch folks here celebrate Reagan and what I see are people mourning for ghouls that killed all my friends and mentors and has yet to so much as acknowledge that crime.

The conservatives that resisted LGBT rights were both Republicans and Democrats, the Democrats being the minds we could change and the politics we could force. The conservatives in this Party are not better than those in the other, they are just not in as much power because the rest of us check their agenda.

[truebluegreen]

20. "Folks here" celebrating Reagan? I'd like to see that.

Link please.

[ieoeja]

28. There is one.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025237834
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024820131#post2
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002201698#post40

I rarely see him post except to defend Reagan or attack a Democrat.

[truebluegreen]

34. Wow. You're right.

Ugh.

[Sancho]

3. The reason government let the economy get out of control was that Americans don't vote!!!

If eligible voters actually voted, the idiots would not ever get in office.
If people don't vote, it opens the door for crooks and liars.

A bunch of people were put in jail during the savings and loan crisis - and they were simply replaced by a new set of crooks. If the government doesn't enforce the laws and regulations, then the law doesn't matter.

Right now, people don't elect a Congress that will enforce the laws.

[A Simple Game]

15. Congress doesn't enforce laws, the executive branch does that. n/t

[Sancho]

31. Yawn...Congress approves the Fed. District Attorneys and judges...

has this Congress held that up??? Are there a bunch of appointments unfilled?

Yes, the ones you elect have an effect on enforcement of laws and regulations. Congress is the biggest hold up, in addition to state officials.

[marions ghost]

17. The worse things get the less people vote

they just hide from it all.

We are losing the battle to make people care about voting.

[Hydra]

24. Low turnout in every other part of the world is considered repudiation of a system

That the voters have no power to change.

Here, it's considered the fault of the voters for not coming out to vote more for the people who are screwing them. That's not even covering the subject of the more and more blatant election fraud.

[Recursion]

5. Who are "they"? (nt)

[RiverLover]

8. The financial services industry titans - The great American bubble machine

aka Wall Street aka Vampire Squid

The Great American Bubble Machine
From tech stocks to high gas prices, Goldman Sachs has engineered every major market manipulation since the Great Depression -- and they're about to do it again
By Matt Taibbi April 5, 2010

Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-great-american-bubble-machine-20100405#ixzz42JXWoCzY
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The Vampire Squid Strikes Again: The Mega Banks' Most Devious Scam Yet
Banks are no longer just financing heavy industry. They are actually buying it up and inventing bigger, bolder and scarier scams than ever
By Matt Taibbi February 12, 2014

Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-vampire-squid-strikes-again-the-mega-banks-most-devious-scam-yet-20140212#ixzz42JXoM1eZ
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You should read more Recursion, so you would know these things!

[Live and Learn]

18. You know who "they" are:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=1442106

[Recursion]

19. No, I don't

Can you actually name the TARP recipients? I'm guessing no.

[islandmkl]

26. interesting list:

https://projects.propublica.org/bailout/list

[KPN]

27. +1000

[CdnExtraNational]

6. These are not the kind of crooks that steal money...

... these are the evil doers that steal lives!

[RoccoR5955]

11. Yet another not to support

Clinton, and any RepubliCLOWN!

[cantbeserious]

13. They - Major Contributors To HRC

eom

[Mbrow]

14. k&R

[TIME TO PANIC]

21. Don't worry.

I'm sure they've "cut it out".

[appalachiablue]

22. K & R Our very own financial services industry that comprises only 5%

of the work force yet takes home 40% of the economy's income. For what, vultures and parasites who create and feed off predatory financial schemes and pushing pieces of paper- aka 'doing God's work!' according to Lloyd Blankfein. A giant vampire squid racket is the correct description.

[allan01]

23. the only place where these crooks got busted was in iceland .

there was a total voters revolt and these scum were put in prison. hmm not so in the rest of the world esp here.

[Hydra]

25. They managed to win almost everywhere else

But the facts scream at us- wherever they were reined it, things got better for everyone, and quickly. Every place they were allowed to suck up more wealth and power, things got worse.

Hopefully more powerful popular revolts coming.

[mmonk]

29. As a victim, something I cannot forgive. No false assessments

of me nor people like me can sway my vote nor disgust nor opposition.

[Jefferson23]

30. Recommend. n/t

[liberal_at_heart]

32. What I want to know is will the tax payers be on the hook again when this happens again?

Because this will happen again. And what will the people do if they are forced to be on the hook again? They cannot continue to do this to the people. Eventually the people will stand up and refuse to take anymore. They will revolt at some point.

[mmonk]

33. With bail ins, the taxpayer will have their checking

accounts confiscated, savings accounts confiscated, and fund accounts confiscated before they are hit with the bailouts. At that time, people will wake up but at the same time, it will be too late.

[islandmkl]

35. there is amazingly no bottom to what they have engineered, and will continue to do so,

to decimate the remaining collective wealth of the middle class...

we are experiencing a plague of greed rivaling the late 1800's...and they are getting away with it...

[mmonk]

36. Yes, we are. Agreed.