As long as the American people simply crave the dollar as the only measurement of value or wealth, we will continue to give banks power over us.
I’m reminded of this when people like HQ comment about their taxes going up a whole $100/year; how unacceptable that is. They pretend it’s about principles, but it’s money. They don’t want their money going for a larger good than them.
So it is with their $100/year. So it is with that tax incentives for polluters, with their $1billion/year. So it is with the bank strategists, with their $1trillion/year.
And people who should be regulating this nonsense get dollars from the banking industry…
When ACTUAL conservative financial principles are rewarded, when the nation’s good can be assigned a dollar value, when natural resources are figured in as having value as they are, then we might get somewhere.
cjr53 over 13 years ago
I don’t think the high muckywucks or any of the cronies deserve it.
Can’t they just live on their regular salaries like the rest of us that work hard?
believecommonsense over 13 years ago
the unelected rulers of the country …. just heard Ben Stein, conservative, say Wall St. rules this country. Wish it wasn’t true.
ezdeb over 13 years ago
As long as the American people simply crave the dollar as the only measurement of value or wealth, we will continue to give banks power over us.
I’m reminded of this when people like HQ comment about their taxes going up a whole $100/year; how unacceptable that is. They pretend it’s about principles, but it’s money. They don’t want their money going for a larger good than them.
So it is with their $100/year. So it is with that tax incentives for polluters, with their $1billion/year. So it is with the bank strategists, with their $1trillion/year.
And people who should be regulating this nonsense get dollars from the banking industry…
When ACTUAL conservative financial principles are rewarded, when the nation’s good can be assigned a dollar value, when natural resources are figured in as having value as they are, then we might get somewhere.
vhammon over 13 years ago
I recommend the book, The Divine Right of Capital by Marjorie Kelly (2001)