You say that as though a little rioting in the street might be a bad thing...
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 9:16 AM, gruff <[email protected]> wrote: > > Banks, more than any other industry, can't be allowed to fail. > Financing and credit are so interwoven into the economies of all > nations that should the banks fail the entire economy would go > bust. This may not be right but, as one talking head noted > yesterday on the tube, lending has almost become a utility just like > power and water. If the banks are allowed to fail, I'm afraid > society and civilization as we know it will also fail. Then there > will be rioting in the streets, for certain. > > However, I agree that since the top four or five percent of the world > owns and controls forty or more percent of the wealth, they should be > called to account and to help. > > On Feb 17, 3:27 pm, Slip Disc <[email protected]> wrote: >> I see people who have paid taxes for years being thrown out on the >> street by banks who are foreclosing on their homes while tax payer >> money is being doled out in billions to the same banks. Who are those >> people making millions of dollars every year taking tax payers money. >> By what right do they have to use tax money for that purpose. What is >> wrong with people in allowing this to go on? Why doesn't the >> government use tax payer money to bring mortgages up to date and order >> banks to refinance at a lower rate. It wouldn't even cost one >> billion to keep families in their homes. Where are the wealthy, so >> called benefactors, Gates and Buffet in all of this? Why shouldn't >> banks be allowed to fall just like others? It seems they, the upper >> echelon of society, still live in their own lofty worlds without a >> care for humanity. What is wrong with them? I predict a national >> breakdown in civility, a Ya Basta stance issued by the people. >> Rioting and looting and arch's political bloodletting ritual. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Minds-Eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
