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In reply to the discussion: Fucking Welfare Queens [View all]raouldukelives
(5,178 posts)And it is all because of Wall St. Every stance they take is anti-liberal. Leaving all of our natural resources up to their discretion. Funneling billions to war contractors. If anything has done well for people in the market over the last decade, it's killing people. Your always guaranteed to make a little bit off of someones death, suffering or poor health.
Not to mention the infrastructure. As you pointed out it is all falling apart and it is all because of privatization and the fraud committed to keep that money and use it to make huge bets in the derivatives market.
They are speculating and gambling the country & world we love out of existence. Every buck in the market is an extra chip for them on the table. They will never stop. It cannot be regulated and they will not listen to reason. We've lost our social safety nets and many of us our friends & family because of it. They are destroying our water tables and forests. It feels like those of us who deeply care about those things have no voice anymore. Not in the face of all that wealth. Our corporate sponsored politicians use the US Military as the enforcement arm for its ends and now we are literally watching our very climate twist & squirm under the offenses they have perpetrated.
It sucks and I wish I knew a good way to make it work for the betterment of the world because it will never go away until it doesn't matter anymore.
"Only after the last tree has been cut down, Only after the last river has been poisoned, Only after the last fish has been caught, Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten."