YES! - Money trumps everything, so a measly $25 Billion settlement is the best we can hope for.
79%
NO - No one is above the Law, not even the wealthy Banksters!
21%
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I'm feeling optimistic that at least if the Fed won't do anything the states will, at least some of them.
I think that the world's biggest financial criminals deserve the severest penalty-the death penalty.Fraud is treated like a victimless crime, but how many divorces, suicides, foreclosures, repos, ruined retirements and bankruptcies have they caused. We all have the same needs. If the world's top 100,000 financial criminals were executed, surely the other 7 billion of us could enjoy a better life. I guess the goal of the top 1% is to make the other 99% feel so miserable that they might collectively commit suicide.
I'd love to think Crooked banks will pay big time but I very much doubt that Last 30 yrs in US Wall ST-Corps - likes of the Kochs Bros run our Fed, our economy, our con courts, our very lives. Voters put the people in power who passed these wealth favoring policies..that led to global disaster , depression, long wars based on lies, TARP scam, Reaganomics Bush GOP deregulation policy, huge UN funded corp perks.& tax cuts. I am afraid for my grand childrens' future.
I have been dealing with Wells Fargo bank for 5 years ,and even I am elgible for loan modification on my mortgae ,and I am the only supporter for my familey with 3 sick children with Asthma and one of them is hearling impaired ,and after I filled complaint letters with Senator Carl levin of Michigan and Senator John Conoyers of Michigan and Senator Burnie Sanders of Vermont ,and also I filed a complaint letter with the OCC the Currency government agency that controls the banks ,Wells Fargo is basicley telling me get lost there is nothing you can do to us, and yes I paid $1000.00 which I lost to a lawyer to get me loan modification ,and he basicley told me that the law is protecting them not you because even if my house is sold for $10.00 the will get the differenace from the Washington D.C apperantly that is what bail out means for those of you whndering,after all this you want me to have hope.