Originally posted by The Old American
No, our government willingly allowed themselves to be taken over by corporate interests. All they had to do was say "no" and Wall Street would've
been de-fanged.
Why are you equating OWS with the government?
For the sake of answering - Our government is MASSIVE as you know, but the idea
of stating that our government willingly allowed themselves to be taken over is
a bit like being perturbed at the liquid nature of water. What politician does not willingly
want to win an election? The process of winning an election, in these modern times
is typically predicated with accepting money to compete in the first place. The entire
nature of willingly being taken over by corporate interests is inherent in the politicians
career before the politician is even dubbed a representative of the people.
Saying NO to wall street does not work as far as I can tell. Once laws are formulated
the politicians have to decide upon how to treat Wall Street, I know that many opponents
to OWS think treating Wall Street unfairly, with unrestirictive laws is the to go, but I think
that attitude is a large part of the problem. Can you stop the behavior of a murderer by making
the job of murdering harder to prosecute on behalf of the law?
Our government accepted the bribes. All they had to do was say "no" and Wall Street would've been de-fanged.
are you putting your fingers in your ears and sticking out your tongue as you type?
How much do you want to bet that virtually everyone you voted for in the last election
took bribes, in the form of campaign contributions? Does this not mean that you are
the enabler here for voting at all?
Why don't YOU list ten (down from my previous attempt of 20) politicians who are good and
say NO to bribery.
Our government allowed a central bank to regulate our economy. All they had to do was say "no" and Wall Street would've been de-fanged.
Yes and it has been that way for nearly 100 years, are you willfully espousing Utopian whims?
When congress gets the opportunity to formulate laws, certain politicians like to liberalize the policy
towards the banks and Wall Street and those politicians are not akin to my thinking, you should
stop voting for those people if you want someone to defang Wall Street. Instead, these politicians
destroy key components to regulation that could prevent fraud and systematic failure, based upon
the centralized banking system that is currently in place.
Our government created restrictive regulation that retards economic growth and prosperity, yet gave corporate interests the power to kill small
business. All they had to do was say "no" and Wall Street would've been de-fanged.
And how about the regulations that are chopped up by alleged free marketers, that are used to SPUR
economic growth, but only make the big boys stronger. Again, my liberal cohorts are not accused of
being to kind on big business, hence drill baby drill, the desire to abolish the EPA and many other things
which are championed and spear headed by... Wall Street and their holdings.
Why you even "went there" and said "retards economic growth"
- I mean who is in the tank for
business here? Economic growth has sky rocketed for the corporate sector, it has not retarded.
What has retarded is the pay for the average person, that is who I wish to champion. I think if
the little guy is ok , the big guy will do even better, kind of the opposite of trickle down...
Trickle down, the idea certain ideology cites as a way to promote economic growth by helping out
the big guy, you know the same group of politicians who tear down vital regulations to help
the big guys, just like TRICKLE DOWN theory supports, so that economic growth is not retarded.
No, our government did. All they had to do was say "no" and Wall Street would've been de-fanged.
They didn't survive cancer? All they had to do is just say "no"
They got mauled by a bear? All they had to do is just say "no"
All they had to do was say "no" and Wall Street would've been de-fanged
Is this a code for, "Give up and pray"?
Really TOA... As I said before, I have a feeling you are afraid that examining the health of
capitalism in America means destroying it. But I assure you TOA, capitalism can not
get more messed up than it is right now, it will benefit greatly from getting off your
ancient talking points and figuring out ways be truthful about the system we are living in.
Companies and business's that are in good faith have nothing to worry about do they?
But the bad actors that fund the government, every campaign and create these corrupted
practices might need to be broken up. If you cannot see that
"All they had to do was say "no" and Wall Street would've been de-fanged"
is quasi magical and utopian in sentiment, then I am not sure if you can ever honestly evaluate
the way this system works.
