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The Jungle of Greed

donderdag 14 mei 2009 20:08 door Goggy
This situation is slowly becoming insane.

We have now the laughing hyenas, the plain-day robbers, their brethren the long-fingered thieves and the ubiquitous vultures of beastly kingdom of finance deep in the Jungle of Greed circling in ever decreasing altitude on the hill called Capitol to claw, bluff and cajole extension of their license to keep their usual victims as slaves who will provide them with chunks of flesh.

Besides the US the whole world appears to be in perilous danger.

All the world has figured up till now that this situation the humanity is faced with in a form of a profound crisis was deliberate and man-made. The usurers had lent money wrapped in tricky banker's language to unsuspecting victims. They did so not with intention to earn normal, God-given interest-rates but with a plan to rob those borrowers of everything. Move few levers, press a couple of buttons and the conditions change, the collateral is repossessed and the show goes on.

But the show cannot go on. It cannot because the vultures have sold again the obligations and promises of the poor borrowers to pay for their loans. And then sold those papers again and again. For their insane profits, for their insane bonuses, for their insane style of the immoral lives they lived in the Jungle of Greed.

In short, those loan-extending institutions were not bona-fide honest-to-God investors but rogue, conspiratorial enterprises of the Big Money.

They relied on only one thin line of presumption that, they thought, guarantees the speculative returns of their bait, well camouflaged, disguised and extended in the form of normal credit. That presumption was that the lawmakers will send the brutal force of the Police and the National Guard in needed to evict, read: rob, the unsuspecting public so that their show could go on. That is why we have all this lobbying on Capitol Hill and the congressmen and senators swaying, watering the bills sent by the Administration for them to build on and help clear this big mess.

Now, if the brutal force is indeed sent down the line to enact the evictions, repossess the households appliance and durable goods, whatever - will that save the economy? Of course not. Then, why even think of evicting people and taking their beds, stoves and cars when there is no chance that anybody would buy them? Thus, why this threat, why not intuce a little peace of mind for all these American families? It is insane that these vultures want to keep the millions of people living under heavy in stress.

The government could have guaranteed all the default mortgages on the houses build in the US between 2000 and 2006 with much, much less moneys than extended already to the big banks and sharks behind them. And again they are happy because they are stopped from paying themselves those ludicrous bonuses. They want to go on, like this wretched character Shylock invented by old Bill Shakespeare wanted to get his pound of flesh. OK, but not a drop of American blood, jackals.

This means go ahead and try to repossess but no Police and no National Guard behind you. Only furiously angry cheated fellow countrymen and women with a constitutional right to own and bear arms to protect their livelihoods.

That is to where this insane pressure for more government or anybody's money leads to.

That attitude must be stopped.

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