Saturday, December 8, 2012

The Plutocrats and the Placeholder President

Click here to access article by Rob Urie from CounterPunch.

The author supplies a much needed different take on "entitlements" that is missing from mainstream media.
The ‘too-big-to-fail’ guarantee of the banks, which is the only reason why insolvent, predatory Wall Street remains in business, is an entitlement program for connected bankers—for which they pay nothing. The bloated, murderous, military industry that lobbies the U.S. into unnecessary wars for their own benefit and that of corporate welfare receiving multi-national corporations is an entitlement program.