Accomplices to the recession, will they be held accountable an pay?

http://ca.reuters.com/article/businessNews/idCABRE97E05Q20130815.

Finally will get to see if any of the accomplices of the investment banks and mortgage lenders are held accountable.  I hope this trial gives more information in the collusion that exist between investment banks, mortgage lenders and the agencies that rate them.  Which kept saying this investments were AAA all the way until it was too late....well I suppose it could have been all the way to a depression. 

Despite the importance of this issue the main media has not even brushed the news. Why? 

Additionally with the light shed on this issue, hopefully some regulation could be put in place, to prevent banks paying rating agencies for the grade they get. Is like you paying your teacher so he grades you as you like, then you pay them generously.  Which teacher would not give you an A+?

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Republican intelligence is it a unicorn or really could exist?

“I will bet you, for most of you, you go home in the next two weeks when your members of Congress are home, and you look them in the eye and you say, ‘What is your positive replacement for Obamacare?’ They will have zero answer,” Gingrich said.
Gingrich blamed the problem on Republican culture that rewards obstruction and negativity instead of innovation and “being positive.”

 http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2013/08/14/newt-to-gop-weve-got-a-problem/

When some one says something intelligent like this, you might think why is he not a politician. Then you see who it was and are amazed by how coherent the guy is knowing he proposed a new state to be formed in the moon and form part of the US. Why do politicians pander the masses and listen to handlers? Not sure if is just a one hit wonder, or he really does have more than a neuron in his head and able to contribute to the nation and help the prosperity and recovery of the country.

Well hope someone listens to his uniquely truthful words within the right, the left, the center, above, below, this world and the next. As although obamacare could provide some help is not a perfect solution. To stop the only option is not only stupid but irresponsible. Someone think the only proposed solution is wrong well see what is wrong and propose something better, rather than wasting time trying to de-fund the only proposed solution. So many futile attempts have been made I would almost be certain that if instead of doing these futile attempts they would all put their heads together (despite the oligophrenia of many of our politicians) we could get something wonderful that would really take of people. But that would be utopic and would not take on account the money behind many of the political decisions that get done.

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Your corporate logo for US President!

Koch brothers driving anti-Obama hate machine

The above website shows how the Club of Billionaires (sorry "job creators") are making sure they stay rich. Instead of squeezing the 99% they should use their money to truly create jobs or help poor people. It will be very interesting to see if so much money will brain wash common people to vote against their own interests, with the promise of you can get to be one of Us, our fortune trickles down, we create your jobs, capitalism is good. Hiding the fact that they put politicians in power (funding their campaigns with their money and not ;-) in any way buying them), who then in turn pass legislation (no quid pro quo here, move along) to decrease their taxes (15% capital gains) only because is "right for the American people". Not happy with that, evade taxes in this country putting their money in foreign banks, and to top it off invest in other countries, undermine unions (that help protect workers rights), and oppose legislation which would decrease middle income Americans their taxes stating is class warfare.

Well you say another crazy liberal rant.... Wait let me make it clear that I am not a democrat (or obviously a republican). I think there is a fundamental problem in politics, let me explain. It is difficult to ask a person hungry for power (politicians), to not listen to to who in their view put them in power. It would be crazy not to listen to them.... yet we want them to listen to the people who truly put them in power but in their view never gave them a big fat check. To make it a bit more clear, If you had a kid and their grandparents give the kid a big nice present every 2 years, who would the kid listen to? Their parents that feed them clean them etc... or their grand parents? Is just human nature.

How to clean the political environment and have true democracy? how to make the majority decide and not be the victim of the rich minority? But also allow the rich to have a voice? after all is a democracy. You would need to make it human-nature-proof. Humanity always has looked to get away with something. Therefore Politicians should disclose contributions for elections and their income as they are public servants. But I would propose something more dramatic and entertaining NASCAR, NFL, NBA everyone proudly display their sponsors logo right? but politicians like to hide the hand, the dirty hand that feeds them. Well then I think a politician MUST wear a vest  with the names or logos of every person (yes that includes companies as per the supreme court) that contribute to their campaign in any way shape or form, or a full body suit (like NASCAR) if there is not enough space. Makes it easy to recognize the interests behind them. So you could tell, Oh that is the Halliburton candidate, that is the BP candidate and so on. Crazy idea? The size of the logo would be according to the amount of money they get from the sponsor, just like any sport.

Oh yes I forgot human nature....  and nothing like hiding behind a superPAC ( "Restore Our Future", "Winning Our Future", "Priorities USA Action")  logo, it must be the name of the person who gave money to support them. No hiding behind the curtain, no Wizard of Oz! (Karl Rove, Harold Simmons, Paul Singer, Bill Burton, Sean Sweeney, etc.)

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SuperPAC..man! I need to get me one of those

  Well just saw the news, Obama is going to accept the help of SuperPACs. Although do not like it, I suppose it was inevitable. I started looking up SuperPACs and found some interesting information about them and here it is:

   Do you know there are 160+ Republican SuperPACs and 70+ Democratic SuperPACs, and from putting the funds that the 4 top democratic SuperPACs have is less money than the second SuperPAC and less than half of what the top republican SuperPAC has? Amazing the top Republican SuperPAC ( Restore Our Future) has 30,179,652!!!!!!!!

  The top second (American Crossroads) has 18,368,102 and had a contribution by Harold Simmons of 5,000,000! Just think of this, a person making 60K a year would have to work 83 years to earn 5 million dollars, and that is before taxes. Just the insanity of Plutocrats and politics.

  Well I hope all that money leaves the conscience of the politicians unbiased, untouched, untarnished, so that they help who truly elects them THE PEOPLE, remember still their salary is paid  by OUR TAXES, yes the measly 99%, the little people. Well I suppose I am a hopeless optimist.

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Elect your favorite crazy person

http://www.truth-out.org/plutonomy-powers-ahead-realonomy-remains-recession/1328219553
http://rwer.wordpress.com/2010/11/11/citigroup-attempts-to-disappear-its-plutonomy-report-2/
http://whataboutmarx.blogspot.com/2012/01/citigroup-tells-it-like-it-is.html



To start with I am a tiny tiny bit of a sarcastic person, with that said, the above links talk about the "job creators" or as the Citigroup reports named them plutocrats, and how concerned they are with the rest of Us, that we all live comfortable, healthy and happy everafter. I am not sure when does a person says WOW I have a lot... but a lot of money? Not like oh I can buy 10 cars kind of money but I can buy 10 countries kind of money. When would a person say I have nothing more I could own I'll start giving things away helping people. Certainly there are such individuals, Buffet, Gates, Bono, Oprah? But is the minority who would do such a thing. What I do not understand is not the lack of action from the affected but the actions of the affected that worsen their situation. Let me illustrate my point with the following example: "Joe the plumber"; Joe turned out to be low income and has never made more than a five figure salary (40K per links below), not only that but he also owed back taxes! Yet he complained of taxes being raised to any person that would earn more than 250K, WHY? He will never earn such amount! does he believe he would become at one point of his life a high income individual? when? when he won the lottery? when he is discovered by the media and becomes a star? No I give you one better BECOME A POLITICIAN! he now is running for office, raising funds for his campaign and pays himself from those funds! (apparently legal). How much you would ask, well 5K a MONTH! Now he earns (5K x 12) 60K a year hooray! and he doesn't need to work, only spew non-sense to get elected (look it up well documented; well the non-sense bit I leave for you to decide). Well done... do not help others just abuse them, do onto others what is done to you? Well at the end I think I do understand; sad but understandable? Cannot beat the loosers join them. Still he is not making 250K, so there you go.... his concern about taxing high income earners still not gonna affect him, he'll never be a plutocrat (likely still has delusions of grandeur). Only thing I hope he paid his back taxes! the funniest and ironic thing is that people donating for his campaign, that share his concerns about taxes will have their money used to pay someone else taxes! they in essence will be paying double the taxes on their own free will. Again cannot believe how people shot themselves in the foot that way, but I digress.

My point; money brings unintelligent abusive people that can be manipulated by rich people out to govern the rest of Us, and there is no deterrent only incentives. Others with the mentality of becoming a plutocrat try to get in the game, and at the end just cause harm to others. Is amazing how in times of crisis, humans come together. Such events gives Us all hope, but most of the times is Darwinism.... welcome to the JUNGLE (the survival of the fittest). In essence we have not learned from history, if you elect crazy abusive people you will be oppressed and abused very simple but yet not learned by all of Us. I think you would agree that however these individuals come to power (supported by their party or elected) allowing crazies (Hitler, Saddam Hussein, Augusto Pinochet, Papa Doc Duvalier, Assad) to govern is a bad idea.

Well what to do? Although for presidency we have televised presidential debates, which allows the general public to learn a bit of how CRAZY candidates are, by the ideas they pitch to the public (e.g. like a moon base that will become an American state, or going back to gold to be used as a currency, or a bunch of paperwork in an office drawer being a person deserving all the considerations of a human being), we do not have any way to tell when a person is running for office. I am sure you are faced with the same feeling that I have...... WOW how can I pick only one!? please can I have ALL OF THEM. So what if for local office, governor, mayor, sheriff and well, why not... also for presidential candidates we should have a means of finding before hand how mentally unstable they are. Maybe they should have an IQ test prior to becoming a candidate or go onto a spelling bee contest (at least we would know ahead of time that they don't know how to pronounce nuclear -what a shame and he represent Us?-). But I think the best solution should be, that they MUST have a thorough psychological profile test done. Then results MUST be posted outside of the voting poll. That way you could elect your favorite crazy person. What do you think?

If you would like any documentation of what I spew please check Wikipedia, Google, history books, news reports etc...

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