We are the fish...

[SlipperySlope]

We're the fish.

The giant "too big to fail" banks are the bird. They've got their talons in the American consumer and the economy.

The only way out for us - the fish - is if someone "shoots" the bird ... or at least captures it and removes its talons from our hide.

In other words: Unless the mega-banks are broken up and reined in, we're in quite a pickle.

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http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com/2010/10/there-is-only-one-way-out-of.html">From Washington's Blog

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The whole read is pretty good. Like many have observed, the banks have got us by the short and curlys now. It was bad enough when they were screaming doom and destruction if we didn't bail them out, but we did and we are still screwed. Even worse, we've taken the absolute dregs of the toxic assets and transferred them from the banks to people's balance sheets.

I can only hope that someone in Washington stands up soon to say "screw the banks, let them fail" and starts looking for ways to save the people instead. I'm not holding my breath.

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1. i do not want my bank to fail.

[MineralMan]

2. Cool photo. I used to have a backyard pond at my house in

California. I had lots of gambusia (mosquito eater) fish in it. They grew to a couple of inches in size. One day, I went into the backyard and there was a green heron sitting on a rock in the pond, eating the fish, one after another. No big deal...they bred quickly, and it wasn't going to eat them all.

For a while I had some koi in the pond, too, but the raccoons ate them all, so I gave that up.

Hawks eat fish. That one has a nice goldfish from someone's pond for its supper. Nice catch!

Bad comparison. Unrecced.