Reply #14: Sadly, I'm beginning to think...

[ljm2002]

...it's not time for the government to take over AIG, it's time for the people to take over the government.

Really, this is feigned helplessness. The government has the power. The government is in charge of the largest, most powerful military machine to ever exist on this planet. The government tells us we are "at war" every time we seek to limit its power over us, its citizens. And yet, this very same government, under a new "hopeful" leader, cannot get corporations to stop paying bonuses to talentless hacks with the taxpayers' money, it cannot get them to reveal where our money is going, it "cannot" do anything at all about this ludicrous situation...

I think not. "Our" government is choosing to continue to sit on its hands while the big money boys rob us blind, while homeowners are thrown out on the street and are publicly labeled as "losers" by the likes of Rick Santelli... "Our" government does not look out for the great majority of its population but rather, for the big operators... it looks out for the big operators at an international level. Meanwhile "our" government ships death and destruction abroad, as our real society -- you know, real people with real homes and real health issues and real children and real elderly parents, et-fucking-cetera -- decays from the corruption that has infected the system.

It really pisses me off.