Forum Post: #1 Demand/Petition of Grievances
Posted 13 years ago on Oct. 8, 2011, 10:13 a.m. EST by Chuck454
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Prosecution of CEO's and Boards of Directors for Too Big To Fail Banks, Insurance Companies, and Investment Corporations, who orchestrated the market collapse and wealth destruction through improper and criminally negligent risk while setting up and paying out financial rewards for themselves regardless of the outcome.
All for these issues are dependent on congress doing something outside of their self interest and as long as the current corrupt and dysfunction political system is in place this is a no win deal. The one and only demand/request/invitation should be to have a national conversation/referendum on how to take back our government from the wealthy corporations/banks/individuals that buy off our politicians to pass or block laws that only serve their self interest and leaves the rest of the country rotting in their wake. This is the one issue that the entire country can get behind. Left, right, tea party, even our current congress agrees that they have become a dysfunction instruction. Making demands that you know will fail is foolish and nonproductive, and only serves the short term gain of feeling like you are doing something. We need to get beyond the symptoms of the problem (all of which you have listed in your petition) and get to the cause ie.our corrupt political system.
Never mind prosecution. Just confiscate what they've stolen and use it for Social Security and infrastructure repair.
Demand number one should be Stop the WAR. Spend those trillions on american people .
Our Presidents do not have the power to do the things we think we elected them to do...except to wage war, and I assume that means to end wars too. Ron Paul would probably be as ineffective as any other President, with the exception of not only ending wars, but closing our close to 1000 bases overseas and bringing that money home.
I think you might be thinking of socialism or other state controlled forms of gov't, but to be more specific. Reduction in war spending can only reduce the rate that we borrow, because remember, we (federal gov't) spend more than we take in, even without our current wars.
Before we do that we need to make all bankers/ceo's/boards/etc. wear something so we can identify them on sight. I suggest making them all wear monocles and pinstriped suits. It would be like back in ancient WW2 times like we did with the star of David, only much more fashionable.
If the market would have been allowed to work, and the firms that were run with ridiculous risk, including Fanny and Freddie, would have failed, we would see them wearing unemployed, foreclosed, and under federal indictment signs. Instead they got baled out, and moved into this administration.
But there needs to be a visual way to identify them so we can scapegoat them.
The perp walk is all that is needed to identify them. I bet you can still name a few from the S&L scandal and prosecutions. Then again, based on your very highbrow remarks, perhaps not...
If they did something illegal, let's get them. If they followed the rules, as outlined starting with Jimmy Carter administration, carried on by both parties, and aggressively defended by Barney Frank and others, then let's join the tea party against the stupid regulations that directed and enabled this activity. Look a little deeper my loose-knit group of do-nothings...
When some of the masterminds of the collapse are now acting officials in the current Executive Branch of the US Gov't, we have a serious issue that needs to be addressed and it's unlikely that the current administration is going to go after its own officials and advisers. Perhaps you have not looked closely at the current administrations class of clowns and learned enough from their ignorance to realize that the "lets go get them" becomes a joke when some of them have key positions in the current administration. I know, you're too busy working to think for yourself and do the independent research required.
When some of the master minds of the collapse are now acting officials in the current Executive Branch of the US Gov't, we have a serious issue that need to be addressed and it's unlikely that the current administration is going to go after its own officials and advisers.