DeFazio stands up for OWS and America.
Sorry I don’t have a synopsis. Just wanted to get this posted before I headed out the door.
The message is being heard and echoed by congresscritters. The surge is working!
Sorry I don’t have a synopsis. Just wanted to get this posted before I headed out the door.
The message is being heard and echoed by congresscritters. The surge is working!
🙂 awesome
leaving a heart. :love:
I like this guy. It’s nice to see that there are a few politicians that have no problem throwing it back on the ones that are supposed to be working for us.
Hopefully this continues….?
😉
YES…fucking tax the speculators…that’s what they should do!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 👿
Occupy Melbourne (probably up until this morning, the world’s most mellow Occupy) has just had the riot police called in to remove them after refusing to move on an eviction order.
http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/police-surround-city-square-as-protesters-defy-eviction-order-20111021-1mb07.html
Interesting timing….the Queen is due to visit us next week….
A good post, Moosehammer; a few observations, if I may?
There is plenty of blame to go around, which few of us are wiling to accept.
For example, there is evidence that before the recession we just came out of (though not jobs-wise), Congress was gung ho in promoting “The American Dream” – home ownership for many more people than could reasonably make predictable mortgage payments. Under our current systems, including how often we move on average, home ownership is definitely not for everyone.
Then, despite right wing / business cries about regulations strangling business, there was either insufficient oversight in ensuring that the income of mortgage applicants was being verified as accurate (it was often exaggerated), or insufficient regulation to guard against that happening, or both.
So Congress, financial institutions, and often mortgage applicants were guilty of negligently or dishonestly creating a real estate bubble, which is a or the major cause of the meltdown. I see protesters and their supporters are rationalizing avoiding decrying the many individuals who exaggerated their incomes?
There is substantial question as to a number of financial institutions using, & is government sufficiently regulating, financial “derivatives”. Billionaire Warren Buffet calls these derivatives time bombs, & weapons of financial mass destruction to our entire economic system. I do not know if our government has now sufficiently addressed this issue or not.
Rep. DeFazio bemoans that our youths’ future has been stolen from them. Yes – it is true that this meltdown we are very gradually recovering from has stolen a lot of jobs. But as I point out in one of my blog posts, and on my profile page, their future has much more been stolen from them by an electorate that refuses to punish the two political parties that have indebted us ever more for centuries.
And so the literally 100% of The U.S.A. public that repeatedly rewards extreme financial indebtedness at the ballot box prefers to pass blame onto politicians and Wall Street, instead of accepting personal responsibility & dissenting.
Woohooo! Pete!
God bless all the Great Northwest liberals!