MACS wrote:Rolling STONED magazine? Yeah, they're not left at all.
And ya gotta love how the OP automatically assumes anyone who doesn't agree has a "thick skull".
I've lived in the "ghetto". I've seen the cycle of abuse that goes on with people living off the gubmint and teaching their kids to do the same. I chose to leave.
How the folks who have money are screwing me, I have NO idea. I seem to be doing just fine. I make more than I spend, I have money in the bank, a nice house, a nice car and I am saving for retirement.
I suppose the OP would like me more if I'd stayed in the ghetto and knocked up a chick and refused to marry her so she could collect welfare... all while I worked under the table.
Instead of making a lame statement that the magazine that publishes the article by Taibbi that I linked in the original post is "Left". Why don't you try and refute some of the substance of the article. Also why don't you take a look at the Levin Report that I linked that has plenty of factual evidence of the criminal fraud that Goldman Sachs perpetrated. If you have no interest in how billions of taxpayer dollars are being transferred to the operators of the fed and individuals in the banking industry. If it doesn't bother you at all that the movers and shakers on Wall street have systematically, with the aid of well bribed (in the form of campaign contributions) politicians of both parties and owned regulators that are currying favor with those they ostensibly regulate to obtain lucrative positions with them in the future, torn down the regulations that were in place to prevent the kind of fraud that morally bankrupt firms like Goldman Sachs perpetrated. If you have no interest in how the socialist, not capitalist, re-distribution of wealth upward is occurring via bailout money, financed by the attendant tax of inflation. If you have no idea how these people are screwing you then you indeed have a thick skull.
I too make more than I spend, have a nice car, a house, a retirement fund (that those lovable scamps on wall street are continuously trying to steal through flash trading, skimming, creating bubbles that they profit on on the way up and then can quickly execute programmed trades to profit on the way down while "buy and hold" investors like most of us are caught and f@cked) etc, but I have my eyes open to what these thieves who create no value, but profit simply from manipulating and betting on the market they've manipulated, and when that doesn't pan out either collecting on the insurance they'be placed against the bet or collecting from the taxpayers in the form of bailouts, and the other thieves who maintain a lucrative franchise on the printing of money, and also are making the decision on how much will be printed and how it will be distributed.
Here's another article that you'll blow off as "left" probably without even reading that describes how these crimes are being covered up:
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/is-the-sec-covering-up-wall-street-crimes-20110817
Just because you and I are doing ok today, doesn't mean that opportunities to do the same aren't shrinking for many others who aren't the "gubmint welfare abusers" you'd like to think are the only ones who might be a bit concerned at the systematic fleecing of most of the US citizenry. It doesn't mean that you won't be impacted if this type of crap is allowed to continue on such massive scale. You certainly don't have any idea, or interest in understanding what's being done to screw you, That retirement fund is something you better watch because it's probably invested in ways that make it fair game for the kind of games Goldman Sachs and other "financial sector" organized criminal enterprises are playing every day to part you from your $.