If We Don't Stop Wall Street's Colossal Theft Now, Where Will This Country Be Next Year?

[marmar]

from AlterNet:



If We Don't Stop Wall Street's Colossal Theft Now, Where Will This Country Be Next Year?

By Tiffiniy Cheng, AlterNet. Posted June 5, 2009.

Come attend events across the country next week to learn more about how we can stop Wall Street before it bankrupts all of us.



We have the most fundamental fight over power ahead of us -- either the banks get bigger and richer and more powerful, or we take away some of their political power for ourselves and our businesses.

Why does this fight matter? Because we have trillions of dollars in deficit, and the financial sector is winning policy after policy and will continue to squeeze tax breaks, loose rules and dollars out of government. The financial sector is stopping our country from getting out of the crisis, it is to blame for our troubles. If we don't stop it, where will our country be by the end of this year?

But do you feel like you don't understand big finance, while you feel less financially secure? Wall Street has been getting away with taxpayer dollars, corruption and risky practices, and a massive market failure. It's because it wants us to believe that "ordinary people can't understand finance and economics." Let's get together and understand why the economic crisis happened and what is being done now.

To beat Wall Street at its game, we need to learn about what it's doing and then loudly refuse its way of doing business. A New Way Forward is launching a way we can do the first part to stop bad practices on Wall Street -- volunteers around the country are hosting economic crisis video screenings and town hall forums starting this Monday through Friday, some Webcasted live.

So, feel like you want a chance to learn more? Come enjoy yourselves and talk about where your money belongs. Find one near you or plan one of your own (New York City's is on Monday). .......(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.alternet.org/action/140490/if_we_don%27t_stop_wall_street%27s_colossal_theft_now%2C_where_will_this_country_be_next_year/

[dgibby]

1. To answer the question, "Where will we be?"

In the :hurts:and yes, it WILL be painful!

[tomreedtoon]

2. We CAN'T understand them. THEY don't understand them.

Business plans and corporate talk are gobbledegook. It makes no sense. It's hypnotic stuff that puts people and even businessmen to sleep. When that happens, the hypnotists just take money.

Wouldn't it just be simpler to kill everyone that works on Wall Street, demolish their skyscrapers and give New York some open air for a change? Trying to do anything political or polite is useless.

[dotymed]

3. CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE

The only chance we have is to demand publicly financed
elections. We'll all have to determine when and where. Without
people insisting, we'll all stay slaves and our pols. bought
and paid for by corporate elite.

[Demeter]

4. Exactly. Boycotts, General Strikes, Demonstrations Day In and Day Out

In numbers too large to be neatly whisked into jail, heaps of dead too large to bury or burn.

And snipers. Weep for the once proud country. It's back to guerrilla warfare, just like 1775.