The "bailouts" were a fundamental shift towards a corporate owned nation...

[armyowalgreens]

This shift has transformed an already shameless central government into the largest corporation on the face of the planet. It employs 307,000,000 people. Yet it also has 307,000,000 shareholders. It's total assets are greater than any other group on Earth.


What we needed was protection from corporate greed. What we needed was a non-profit entity willing to fight for the people.

What we got was a business deal.

Let's hope the dividends pay well.

[aquart]

1. Oh, what bloody bleating crap.

[Hannah Bell]

2. -1

[RandomThoughts]

3. Well I understand the frustration.

but if we were all shareholders, it would be much different, only 1-5% are shareholders.

assets for individuals and groups really are fluid, they depend on the systems that sets who 'owns' what and the ability to enforce those things.

Like banks theoretically own some about of money, but with no oversight, they could figuratively just add zeros to the end of balance sheets and who would ever know. That sort of thing makes both laws and enforcement part of ownership. In the same way, if people were no longer evicted, then whoever lived in a house would own it.

[armyowalgreens]

4. I guess you are right. The return will only go to a small percentage of the population.

[RandomThoughts]

5. I am not agreeing with you that America is a corporation

but there are many people that like corporate systems. There are also many that like democratic systems with regulation on corporate systems.