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you cannot legislate morality,real change can only come about in the heart and cannot be enforced.Why would a bank act like this in the first place? Is the purpose of a bank not profit at all cost,s ,why should they act any differently! if its in there culture.
The profit motive is deeply embedded in our survival of the fittest culture remember people are starving all over the world right now ,children ,women, men people like you and me even in the land of the free, the thing about freedom is even people with freedom will choose not to be free and approve of giving away all that they have worked for ,why ? because they want safety ,security and survival due to FEAR .Fear and Guilt are the only enemies of humans.
Right now we live in a world built on fear ,what happened to give me liberty or give me death so we give our lives over to people and institutions that oppress and repress us but do not worry because our true essence is freedom and oneness this is the missing message that will change our cultural story.
The day will come when we reach a critical mass of people who no longer support oppression and repression then that government , religion or dictator will disappear and as the government of the united states becomes more dictatorial and freedom taking ,it will occur there as well,this will happen on a global level and has begun.
The new spirituality and the foundational truth of oneness will be embraced by more and more people and will grow exponentially each year this shift in peoples awareness will produce an on the ground experience and people will know themselves to be one with everything and they will feel one with everything.This is the game changer for humanity and will affect all aspects of life ,the environment,the economy,commerce,politics,education all our created social systems ,nothing will remain unaffected .
The future is bright for humanity when we get through our birth ,our birth is happening now it certainly is producing some interesting and challenging times ,but we must not challenge each other but challenge our beliefs that create our behaviors and our old cultural story that is based on fallacy and is in fact a misunderstanding.
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I agree whole-heartedly! One of the great problems (for us) of the way financial corporations are permitted to operate, is the lack of personal accountability of the individuals composing them (and the sloppy financial legislation in place, allowing corporations to be generally unaccountable). If we could change that, making them liable to do prison time for such flagrant violations of people's rights and basic business ethics, it would dovetail nicely with the Correction Corporation of America's proposed $250 million contract being put out to 48 states (requiring 90% prisoner occupancy minimum). Considering that those states are on the verge, or in the process, of going bankrupt, they'll probably take the deal.
Think of all the bankers we could jail!! And if we're industrious, maybe we could change the laws so that both financial people and the legislature (state and government) could be imprisoned for their many failures to perform, and outright treacheries. I think it's a goal worth working for.
Where is a justis department ? i am sick of this Cruuuuks.
Yes, definately, banks who do these things, forclosing on regular people as well as our military, when it's within their power to do otherwise, and especially when the law mandates they do otherwise -- these banks' charters and licenses should be pulled immediately, and they additionally be made to make full restitution and pay additional damages.
This should also be done to banks that have forced people into debt by absorbing other banks student loans (by corporate purchase or takeover) and repackaging them with other kinds of loans into Wall Street products. [This way they make the loans "dissappear" for many years, then resurface them with outrageous bottom lines, putting the borrower in the position of being unable to pay.] They should be made to repay every penny of what they've taken from borrowers, plus a huge amount for every year their fraudulent tactics damaged and put on hold the borrowers lives. And they should lose their charters and licenses.
Not only does this destroy people's and families' lives and circumstances, but the debt can remain, destroying any chance a person has of rebuilding their life. A person can grow old under this kind of oppression [which, for me, has been going on for 26 years.]
Maybe we need to have an election every year. Eventually, the wealthy will lose a lot of money each year and give up...yeah right! And besides if our elected officials turn out to be lying sacks of spit then we don't have to wait a whole 4 years to choose another one.
Wait till Capital One starts to overwhelm us with commercials on TV showing how much they love the Military and what they are doing for the military. Every time I see a BP commercial that tries to tell us that everything is back to normal in the Gulf..gee, you can eat the fish again...go swimming. I almost puke!
And the really terrible thing is that it probably works for a lot of people. There needs to be a lot more skeptics. Trust no one! I really detest commercialism... advertisements... and sneer at most...and those boiler room maggots who pester the hell out of me by calling me up or constantly sending me advertisement mail really ticks me off....especially those ones from the Medicare Supplemental plan pests.
I read that in 2008 they passed a bill stopping a lot of that badgering old people (those of us about to turn 65). They used to knock on doors and stop you in the parking lots trying to get you signed up for Medicare parts C or D or whatever else the other ones are. And many of these insurance companies were way more expensive and may not have covered as much as the original Medicare part A and B. I noticed the deductibles on one was twice to three times what original Medicare required. But they have so many plans and options and fine print that it could easily be very confusing for most...exactly why they do it that way..they want to confuse you and then sucker you in to talking to a representative (salesman). He'll confuse you even more and talk you into committing to a tragic mistake. ka-ching! There goes your money down the rabbit hole.
I believe both corporations and governments are staffed by people. Government employees are no more immune to corruption than corporate employees. The pentagon can't even be sure how many billions of dollars they can't account for. Billions! Each year! For decades!
Anyone, who can act without accountability will eventually realize he/she is above the law. Then they will begin to act accordingly.
The question in my mind is not whether the government or corporations are more trustworthy. The question in my mind is why are we not holding individuals, whoever they work for, accountable for the decisions they make?
Corporations don't need the death penalty.
The executives who make the decisions to violate the law need to go to prison. REAL prison, for a long time.
When those personally responsible are held accountable, you will see corporate responsibility blossoming everywhere you look.
If there are as many as 4000 members of the military who have been illegally foreclosed on, $12,000,000 equals about $3000 for each one that lost their home.
Capital One Bank steals a house and the rightful owner get $3000 in compensation? That's not justice; that's an insult and an indication of just how broken our judicial system is!
I think Justice requires the Capital One Bank to purchase a new home, paid in full, for each of the 4000 members of the military who had their home stolen. $3000 isn't even a down payment.
All we want is equality!
This rotten corporation deserves the death penalty! How dare they treat our soldiers in the careless, heartless, and greedy manner. I am just disgusted with our whole banking system. Just full of fraud and thievery. We as people have to do something to put an end to their behavior.
I must agree withy dowdotica -- i trust my government over my bank. Why should the workers of America contnue to susidize the fat cats -- first by working at the lowest wage we can squeeze out of them, and second, by subsidizing public amenities such as roads, bridges & schools for them. I doubt they ever decide they can't afford to take their Caymen Island vacations, unlike many of their employees who may just have to settle for taking their kids to the nearest public park.
All "too large to fail" banks should get the death penalty. We should go back to the time when banks were banks and investors worked in investment companies and insurance was sold by insurance companies. Speculators should be outlawed totally.
I worked at a community bank beginning in 1972 and absolutely loved it. At that times banks were state by state and not allowed to go across state lines, etc., for business. The employees were are like family and it was a good time to be working at a bank. Then it merged with other banks - and again with others and, needless to say, the family feeling was gone and you were now just a number - no one knew your name unless you were in some way connected with something that was not good. I left banking twice to go to work for the DoD after mergers meant having to relocate to either other cities or states and, since my husband was in the military, this was not an option. I gave up on banks several years ago and now have all of my funds in a credit union and feel much safer and have a much better relationship with them.
Yes, it is time to revoke the current corporate charter of the big banks - Bank of America first, followed by Wells Fargo, Citi, Chase and on and on until they are ALL community banks again with the full responsibility for extending loans and mortgages AND servicing those products until they are paid out. You should be able to know and be known by your banker - not because you have millions (or billions) in their portfolios but because you are an ORDINARY, EVERYDAY customer.
I woud not work for any bank anymore - nor would I work for a lot of businesses for the same reasons. The phone (home and cell) companies are good examples as are just about all large corporate companies.
I started working (other than babysitting) at the age of 14 in the kitchen of a local hospital, moved on to waitress at various places, a curb hop at a drive-in restaurant, retail work, cashiering in grocery stores and then on to banking and finance with DoD. Many years I worked 2 jobs leaving home at 4:30 in the morning and not returning until 10:30 or 11:00 PM (or later when the 2nd job was at a tax office). I had my husband who was a 20 year military man and then also moved on to DoD and we had 2 children.
I have worked until this past April (at the age of 72) leaving ONLY because the corporation for which (not whom because, despite what the Supreme Court says Corporations ARE NOT PEOPLE!) I worked had absolutely NO respect and NO trust in their employees and the employee moral was so low as to be shameful. I wrote out my resignation, making sure to state the reasons why I was leaving with local management but also made sure that a copy of that resignation reached the CEO, Director of HR, etc at the Corporate Office in California - the job was in Florida at a Nature Theme Park. On my last day of work, after having given proper notice, NOT ONE PERSON was there to say goodbye, you did a good job, kiss my A_ _! or anything else.
With few exceptions jobs are just that anymore - the companies and/or corporations want loyalty and hard work from their emplyees but they give as little as possible back in return. The only people who have any appreciation for what you do are those WITH whom you work and who are in the same situation but, for many reasons, cannot afford to do what I did. Believe me, my husband and I do NOT have money but I felt my self-respect and self-worth was more important than the little bit I was bring home every 2 weeks.
I have no sympathy for the corporate CEOs, CFOs, etc and only wish that people such as Bernie Madoff were put out into the real world to have to live off of minimal Social Security and Medicare as so many of us do after having ALL of their off shore accounts, trust funds, etc taken away from them. I believe that would have been a much better sentence for him than the jail in which he now resides and for which taxpayers have to pay.
I kow this has turned into a manuscript but I have lived too long and have too much bottled up about the financial industry to be able to say what needs to be said in a sentence or two.
Thanks for all you do, Thom.
kill wall street and nationalize the banks. regardless of how anti tax, anti government, brainwashed America has become I'd still trust the government with my money over the casino royal! think about it. we have become so anti gov, anti tax that a person would rather think its good to take the interest deduction on a tax return to avoid taxation instead of paying the house off quicker? get it?10-12k in interest deduction might save you 2 k in tax but who'd ya give that 10-12k to, hmmm? jokes on us worse yet? i tried to convince my employer we are doinig a disservice to our clients by letting those who could pay down mortgage debt continue to think that the deduction has value? Me? can't wait 'til i don't owe the banks jack shit!!! oh wait, thats right i just put 2 kids into college that when i had them would have been affordable but with the new American screw job now tuition is up, what, 500-700% over where it was a decade ago? darn it all!!!lol death to the banks!!!
Tom Hartman news is superb. I first heard of Tom Hartman listening to Air American in 2006 on AM radio before it was taken off the Air. Randy Rodes was on informing general public about the Clean Brake document and the Downing Memo. I bet that is what caused the program to be taken off the air. That is Randy Rodes expose as it were of Clean Brake document manufactured in 1996. I only believe in instutuional analisis and not conspiracy and don't have the concision of time, space and knowledge to express it well enough other than to state it as a "hunch" so to speak with reference to Randy Rodes from Air American regarding Clean Brake document and also the Downing Memo.
Recently I had been listening to RT news within the last two months about a RT program called the Max Keiser Report with Stacy Herbert. I find it amazing how slick libertarians work. It seems like the Libertarians get things backwards so I believe MIT professor emertis Noam Chomsky would say. Look at Allen Greenspan. Greenspan would I believe be a classic example of how libertarians operate on non-human, mechanistic model as it were good for machines only and those old fashioned hand held slate boards with chalk. Allen Greenspan later admited his model was incorrect once he left his position (kinda late but at least he said it). Max Keiser I believe said Allen Greenspan was like a Madoff so I believe he said on one of Keiser's programs. This I believe is really telling if I heard Max Keiser correctly in that my assessment of Max Keiser is a libertarian as was/is Allen Greenspan. However, getting back to Max Keiser report I admire Max Keiser as being genuine and believe he is a "commisair-of-culture" to barrow a term used by Noam Chomsky from his writting Necessary Illussions appearing counter-culture that is Max Kaiser (along with infowars.com) but not really. I believe Max Keiser exposes the "bansters" as they are very well as does Tom Hartman. If my studies of Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky serve me correctly, that is having read their writing in depth via Z Magazine for years, it seems as thou Democrats gets in trouble for immitating the Republican platform to appeal to the main stream. This I believe is so since the enemy of the Republican Party seems to me to be the general population of USA wanting representation outside of autocratic like institutions being understanble an self evident. Look what happened with Hillary Clinton when her husband Bill Clinton was President regarding Managed Care which was really a Republican platform from the get go. Therefore of course doomed to fail more than likely since even republicans mostly who vote don't seem devote enough for their own party since Republicans dangeriously appeal to a larger base to win elections being subversive to empire building.
Furthermore, the reason I bet wikileaks former head, Julian Assauge appears to be referenced on Max Keiser is that Julian Assauge exposed the embarressment of Democrats who often where apologics to Nixon/Kissinge/Bush platforms handed down from something as old as empire building itself. That is republicans are taking advantage of how clinically ill small "d" democracy is. Democrats are stuck trying to apologize for their autocractic empire where small d democracy is subversive yet needed reason for extra times zones of expantion of neoliberalism not to be confused with the coloqual understanding of being liberal. One exception (there are no doubt many others) but what immediately comes to mind would be Republican Senator Glass and Democrat House Representative Stegal (the Glass/Stegal act). I sure wish Bill Clinton had not repealed that by being so Republican. But the Bill Clinton in a odd contorted way "out" republicaned the Republicans so called centerist party platform in my view was extremely annoying to the RNC. Take former President Bill Clinton's position on Nafta the so called free trade agreement with Mexico that in affect served to displace US auto workers. What credit does the RNC give Bill Clinton for this other than invites to likely the Builderberger/Trilateral/CFR organizations. Michael Moore on his TV show, now off the air, called The Awful Truth showed this very problem of US auto workers jobs being outsourced to Mexica under the NAFA agreement with USA created by Bill Clinton. How about Bill Clinton balancing the reckless spending of the Reagan Administration. Yet that type of deficit spending happened again on Bush junior but so much more so due to unchallenged no-bid contractors backing USA war with Irac. Also since social security had already been used by Reagan to hide his reckless spending of his Administration without Bill Clinton putting back in place the boundary divider like that between an individual human being's checking and savings account and retirement savings.
This was not purposely written is to annoy. If it is to the reader, sorry. In that I did the best I can here from the model I work with that does not have to necessarily be yours. My heart goes with you in that if this is unsetteling to be annoyed is truely unpleasant to say the least. So let us be "free" here in expressing ourselves to use the term lossly as the libertarians do already I believe expressed on RT news being the Keiser Report. No doubt there is parts of this writing here that need work. Each time I reread it I find mistakes. I have to go now. I can not spend more time with this writing thou I would like to. My best of intentions the the reader of this here. If you read this, thank you for your time. God bless you and if you won't bless yourself I will for you if okay with you (not to rob any of there God given write to self-determination within reason). Take care.
If corporations are people, shouldn't they be accountable for their actions just like the rest of us?
Every chance possible, I try to listen to Mr. Hartmann on his radio show because his is not on cable by me. What is wonderful about Mr. Hartmann is his extrasensory perception of callers. Just the other day a caller was on making kind testimonials and accolades towards Mr. Hartmann. Within an unreasonable short time period, at will, the caller turned one hundred and eighty degrees condemning Mr. Hartmann. To me what was interesting in the rhetorical exchange with this woman that had a certain resonance that particular pitch, that sonic compression or stretch that flags tobacco or alcohol. Or, she could have been a pill popper type person having this world order believe they are of primary importance in everybody's life or to anyone they meet. The lame Limbaugh libido funk circus mindset. The woman had her own business, and government should not interfere to continue in this free market system.
Mr. Hartmann is somewhat like dueling banjos. Once he gets the drift that a caller is nothing more than a nasty jackass, he at least gives those types the opportunity to be just that, a jackass. Giving time for a jackass to make assumptions wildly takes skill, especially with this new approach where everyone does help a business. To me, that concept is basically called the commonwealth.
Many who call say Obama does not understand the free market. You who, you mean the free market, which has secret banking, tax havens, inside stock trading short trading not published. The new, new phrase, toxic assets, predator banking, Gaussian Bell curve liars, real estate flipping, matrix pivot polling, and of course the energy core, the treasury with America’s federal reserve that lends money to anyone they choose any time, secretly, for any reason they choose. To get your credit score, call those secret baby trust fund guitar players we see on commercials. The new supreme rule “money” is free speech. So, since I have very little, can’t say much. Sheesh…now you got me going, the best free market commercial is by Ted Thomson the former Senator and presidential candidate advertising reverse Mortgages, watch when you get a chance. I really have a good laugh every time I see it. It actually exposes an infinite space of deception by placing a disclaimer in what appears to be hundreds of words so small for a second two they cannot be read. Total fraud…
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oh, you know, now that we are no longer a democracy…I guess an initially defective nuclear reactor going hyper ballistic and ejecting a radio-active cloud into the atmosphere that rivals an asteroid impact only to leave a crater where southern Japan and a sizeable chunk of the ocean used to be…is just something we are going to have to get used to. Long live GE.
Perhaps what we really need is someone to manage the funds more efficiently, we can't give up on the retraining programs, especially not now when they are most needed. It can be really difficult to find a job when your training lacks, such programs can make wonders for most people. I am a public administration graduate so I am one of the lucky ones, but that doesn't mean I can't see what's happening all around me.
"A Hell of a way to boil water." Albert Einstein. "All the nuclear waste from one nuclear plant in one week can be stored under a desk." Ronald Reagan. The disaster at Fukushima Nuclear Plant continues along with the incompetence of the men in charge and the manipulative and deceitful information that TEMPCO and the Japanese government have shared with the Japanese citizens from what they call the their 311. When the earthquake and tsunami struck the plant, little regard was given to the machinery in the bottom of the plant. The earthquake damaged the pipes that are under the buildings. Both leaders, in Japan and the USA were aware of the plant's meltdowns and the situation on March15. The plan to cool the reactors using helicopters dropping water was dismissed and there has been a blackout in the US. Arne Gunderson of Fairwinds, was told that our government decided to "downplay" Fukushima because it would create panic and a negative reaction toward the nuclear energy in the US , even the people of Japan are kept ignorant and look to the internet for information. Now the Japanese government is thinking about closing down You Tube sites.
Having followed this nuclear nightmare from its beginning, I believe that there is nothing that can be done. It should be viewed as a "crime against humanity". Not only is this radioactive water being dumped into the Pacific; the material is being burned and moved around the whole nation of Japan. Now some of the readings designate little radiation at the plant, we should all breath a sigh of relieve. Unfortunately, those measurements were taken with the monitors inside of lead boxes.
Massive fresh water aquifers being bought up (all over the globe), oil catastrophes (as Gulf of Mexico) poisoning our Oceans/food supply, power crazed sociopaths intentionally run worlds economic system into ground ( to impoverish all but 1%). Fukushima looming, fracking poisoning, purchasing of bio-organisms and Democracy, gmo manipulation of food supply, seed banks buried deep into earth, drug induced zombie psychology controlling % of population, capitalism raping very essence of humanity, police state, corp., gov., & citizen centrepol, bunkers 10+ stories deep into earth, social progs of food, healthcare and housing (sustaining human life) being systematically demolished, ...there is intent here, clearly all this (and more) does not propagate "Life, Liberty or the Pursuit of Happiness" ... to put it mildly.
If it is not Fukushima Reactor 4 alone that triggers a global catastrophe, obviously there are a myriad of catastrophic elements breaking, just as the dawn.
This is not the 60's... "We're not in Kansas anymore"
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