Stop building safety nets for the rich

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

The headlines that ran side by side on the front page of Saturday's New York Times summed up, inadvertently, the terrible fix that we've allowed our country to fall into.

The lead headline, in the upper right-hand corner, said: "U.S. Deficit Rises to $1.4 Trillion; Biggest Since '45."

The headline next to it said: "Bailout Helps Revive Banks, And Bonuses."

We've spent the last few decades shoveling money at the rich like there was no tomorrow. We abandoned the poor, put an economic stranglehold on the middle class and all but bankrupted the federal government — while giving the banks and megacorporations and the rest of the swells at the top of the economic pyramid just about everything they've wanted.

And we still don't seem to have learned the proper lessons. We've allowed so many people to fall into the terrible abyss of unemployment that no one — not the Obama administration, not the labor unions and most certainly no one in the Republican Party — has a clue about how to put them back to work.

Meanwhile, Wall Street is living it up. I'm amazed at how passive the population has remained in the face of this sustained outrage.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2010100553_herbert21.html

[Double T]

1. I am OUTRAGED and ENRAGED about wall street scumbags and their corporate anti-america enablers.

I'd start a revolution tonight but millions are needed and I see little or none. We are in an economic depression that has been masked by the corporate media and flooding the financial markets with hundreds of billions of dollars. Nothing is real in our cooked up economy; the true reality is annihilation of the middle class and debt and deficits that are completely out of control.

[Angry Dragon]

3. Count me in

[Double T]

4. GREAT!

Now we need 1,999,998 more like US and we can get started.

[Angry Dragon]

6. Any one else want to join the revolution??

Taking all comers

[rhett o rick]

2. HOW? We dont have control of our government. nt

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[yurbud]

8. the net they need are ones like at the beginning of PLANET OF THE APES

use them to round up the trust fund babies as they get out of their limos.