Remember a few weeks ago, when we discussed the president deciding he can set bankers' salaries?????

[Cuba]

All that outrage over these policies (which the kool aid brigades fiercly and blindly defended as a just treatment because these banks took TARP money...) is now fully justified. The president has announced he wants control over what bankers and actually anyone working in the finance industry, can earn for their efforts. Not employees of companies that either needed TARP money or had it illegally forced on them to mask the "bad banks", but everyone. He wants cdirect control over what a private bank, with $0 in federal money, is allowed to pay their own employees.

Remember when we said TARP was just the beginning? Well?

 

[Hellgate]

Wow...I don't even know what to say. I think Lincoln just rolled over in his grave and Marx did a little jig. Appalling.

 

[wrightme43]

When Texas secedes, can I come camp in your yard Pete?

 

[WarriorDog]

Even the Russians can see what's going on in the US, and they are laughing their azzes off.

American capitalism gone with a whimper - Pravda.Ru

American capitalism gone with a whimper


It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American decent into Marxism is happening with breath taking speed, against the back drop of a passive, hapless sheeple, excuse me dear reader, I meant people.





True, the situation has been well prepared on and off for the past century, especially the past twenty years. The initial testing grounds was conducted upon our Holy Russia and a bloody test it was. But we Russians would not just roll over and give up our freedoms and our souls, no matter how much money Wall Street poured into the fists of the Marxists.

Those lessons were taken and used to properly prepare the American populace for the surrender of their freedoms and souls, to the whims of their elites and betters.

First, the population was dumbed down through a politicized and substandard education system based on pop culture, rather then the classics. Americans know more about their favorite TV dramas then the drama in DC that directly affects their lives. They care more for their "right" to choke down a McDonalds burger or a BurgerKing burger than for their constitutional rights. Then they turn around and lecture us about our rights and about our "democracy". Pride blind the foolish.

Then their faith in God was destroyed, until their churches, all tens of thousands of different "branches and denominations" were for the most part little more then Sunday circuses and their televangelists and top protestant mega preachers were more then happy to sell out their souls and flocks to be on the "winning" side of one pseudo Marxist politician or another. Their flocks may complain, but when explained that they would be on the "winning" side, their flocks were ever so quick to reject Christ in hopes for earthly power. Even our Holy Orthodox churches are scandalously liberalized in America.

The final collapse has come with the election of Barack Obama. His speed in the past three months has been truly impressive. His spending and money printing has been a record setting, not just in America's short history but in the world. If this keeps up for more then another year, and there is no sign that it will not, America at best will resemble the Wiemar Republic and at worst Zimbabwe.

These past two weeks have been the most breath taking of all. First came the announcement of a planned redesign of the American Byzantine tax system, by the very thieves who used it to bankroll their thefts, loses and swindles of hundreds of billions of dollars. These make our Russian oligarchs look little more then ordinary street thugs, in comparison. Yes, the Americans have beat our own thieves in the shear volumes. Should we congratulate them?