Forum Post: Do you go after drug user or the dealers?
Posted 12 years ago on Nov. 18, 2011, 10:02 p.m. EST by jay1975
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The reason I ask this is because I see Wall Street as the drug users. They are only buying what the politicians in DC are selling. DC sells relaxed tax rules, legislation and free trade deals that Wall Street is willing to buy. Protesting Wall Street is as effective as arresting drug users. If you want to stop the problem, you go after the dealers, in this case DC. Even if every multinational corporation fired their current CEO, who is to say that their replacements won't be just as greedy. Until DC changes their ways, Wall Street has no reason to change theirs.
A new uncompromising movement against NYPD's notorious Stop & Frisk program began yesterday as hundreds of demonstrators marched from the Harlem State Office Building to Harlem’s 28th precinct. At the station, Cornel West, author and Princeton professor, Carl Dix of the Revolutionary Communist Party, Rev. Stephen Phelps, interim senior minister of Riverside Church, and dozens of others were arrested in an act of non-violent civil disobedience. Among those arrested and protesting was a large contingent from downtown’s Occupy Wall Street.
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Neither, you go after these bastards
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They had a heavy hand in Japan's nuclear accident. It's only a matter of time before Japan's nuclear waste affects Americans.
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-03-13/tepco-toshiba-jr-east-may-be-among-most-hurt-by-earthquake.html
They sold U.S. military secrets to the Russians.
http://www.nytimes.com/1988/04/15/opinion/l-punishing-toshiba-is-a-secondary-boycott-809388.html
And Toshiba is giving the folks the shaft!
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http://www.consumeraffairs.com/computers/toshiba.html
http://www.boycottowl.com/Toshiba/79
I see that as a false analogy. I think it's the other way around. Wall street is the dog, DC is the tail.
DC has gotten rich off of the laws they write and the ability to inside trade. They provide the products that Wall Street desires and reap the rewards. What incentive is there for Wall Street to change when they know that DC has their back? Run a corporation to near collapse? No problem, Uncle Sam will bail you out. Not making enough with US made goods? No problem, DC will sign NAFTA into law. DC is the enabler to Wall Streets bad habits.
So, maybe it would be more like Wall Street is the junkie/ alcoholic, and DC is their enabler? Sure, some of the Senators and such might be getting rich from deals made in Washington (cough Halliburton cough), but I think that Wall street is the one who is really in control.
So maybe it's like a limousine and limousine driver. The driver of the limousine is DC, and the man in the back is Wall street. How would you change the direction of the limousine? Change drivers?
The thing is, Governments can be held accountable. They can be impeached, or voted out of office. You can't do that with a bank or a corporation.
No, but DC can create the laws to prevent Wall Street having too much power, but the political class, in its current form, is too corrupt to put the needs of the nation over their own greed. Again, why would Wall Street change their ways knowing that DC will protect them over us? Wall Street has the influence, but DC has the power.
Hmm, I disagree. I still think it's Wall street, and international bankers, that have the power. I think that Washington is just a puppet state, and it doesn't really matter if it's Democrat or Republican, George W. Bush or Barack Obama. They get their marching orders from the Federal Reserve and the world bank.