Surviving Capitalism (Not) : Famous Wall Street trader: “the system is ‘fuck the poor’”

We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Saturday, September 17, 2011

Famous Wall Street trader: “the system is ‘fuck the poor’”

Click here to access article by Jérôme E. Roos from RoarMag.

The fact that knowledgeable people like Eisman wasn't initially aware of what was going on is testimony to the covert and sophisticated nature of the operation. It was essentially a conscious criminal enterprise perpetrated by banksters and Wall Street investors that differs little from the methods used by the Mafia and other such criminal organizations. They boldly saw that lower-middle income people in the US were an "easy mark" because they naively believed in the American Dream. One of the leading pitchmen for this operation was none other than George Bush, Jr.