Aargh!! It is so frustrating. Why can't these people be educated about the bailouts so they can focus their anger against both parties, against Bush AND Obama AND Congress and their puppetmasters on Wall Street.

The whole health care thing is diverting the proper focus of popular anger from where it ought to be, and Goldman, Morgan, Citi and BOA are laughing about it on their taxpayer-paid-for yachts.

Because...um.....without our financial giants and corporate leaders, we'd be governed solely by teabaggers and hippies? The fabric of our nations would shred. Wouldn't it?

The problem is not Wall Street. The problem is where many of the Wall Street giants were educated--the same Ivy League institutions where Bush & Obama were educated.

I continue to say that if we had fewer Ivy Leaguers in positions of power in this country, the country would be much better off.

Community College ROCKS!

bsharporflat:

Community College ROCKS!

I have much more respect for someone who works their way through community college, graduates and takes their "inferior" education, starts their own business, fails, and then rises back up again, than the Ivy League graduate who is handed a job with a top firm.

It's one of the few--probably the only thing besides her looks---I like about Sarah Palin. She isn't one of "them."

"Wall Street" is part of the Establishment, as are the corporate media, and the 2 political parties. They have a tried and true method of using the political parties to deflect accountability by partisan agitation. Americans lap it up like Gravy Train.

Geoausch:

bsharporflat:

Community College ROCKS!

I have much more respect for someone who works their way through community college, graduates and takes their "inferior" education, starts their own business, fails, and then rises back up again, than the Ivy League graduate who is handed a job with a top firm.

It's one of the few--probably the only thing besides her looks---I like about Sarah Palin. She isn't one of "them."

I got degrees from private university, state university, and ivy league university. For my last degree (state U), I first attended community college to pick up the math prerequisites. I can say the level of education at all the schools I attended was pretty high. Yes, there are great teachers and not-so-great teachers at every educational institution. Part of education is learning how to see the differences and how to navigate among them.

And, by the way, I was never handed a job with a top firm.

Well and fairly said.

Because the think tanks (American Enterprise Institute, Heritage Foundation, et.al.) have been honing the manipulation of public opinion for over 40 years. They're very good at it.

Read some Noam Chomsky and George Lakoff. Of course you won't; they've been marginalized to the fringe. See how well the system works?

Long live the Empire!

Imagine how upset the public would be if they found out that Wall Street Executives were secretly receiving swine flu shots? Even though these Execs are not in any priority groups. I heard this story on NPR's All Things Considered last night. Just another example of the public's misdirected hostility. They should be revolting about that. Not some watered down health care bill.

So to be clear, the public "should be revolting" over your interpretation of an NPR story but not be concerned about legislation that will add a trillion-odd bucks to the debt?

Otay.

Yeah. I misinterpreted a story that said "News that US swine flu vaccines, meant to be prioritized for the nation's most vulnerable, are being distributed to Wall Street firms such as Goldman Sachs, have sparked uproar." My point is this: how can you get people upset about our national debt when many Americans are in deep debt because of their own reckless spending?

"My point is this: how can you get people upset about our national debt when many Americans are in deep debt because of their own reckless spending?"

Your "point" appears to be a moving target.

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Yes, just like the national debt.

You're right wolf, it would be much better if these true patriots who only love America and want their country back worried over improved healthcare at lower costs. Or the government's regulation of wall street, because wall street was does so much to help the little guy. Or Obama's failure to make an instant decision on Afghanistan, because Bush was making things happen left and right over there. Or raising the deficit, because that just started January 20. Or the damage being done to the Constitution, which was apparently strengthened by the assault on the Bill of Rights conducted by the last administration. You guys can get riled up over whatever you want; just admit that your timing that is suspicious at best, and your agenda is a perfect match for Fox News.