Martinghoul you better run and hide because your team is exposed here (just kidding stick around, I enjoy your spin) Robert Reich, US Secretary of Labor under Bill Clinton in 99 said "The dirty little secret is that both houses of Congress are irrelevant. ... America's domestic policy is now being run by Alan Greenspan and the Federal Reserve, and America's foreign policy is now being run by the International Monetary Fund [IMF]. ...when the president decides to go to war, he no longer needs a declaration of war from Congress." Ben Bernanke jokingly said at Academic Advisory Panel at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Responding to Milton Friedman concerning the Federal Reserve, 2002. "Regarding the Great Depression. You're right, we did it. We're very sorry." U.S. Senator Dick Durbin said in April 30, 2009 "The banks -- hard to believe in a time when we're facing a banking crisis that many of the banks created -- are still the most powerful lobby on Capitol Hill. They frankly own the place." AND if you ever wondered what was in the head of bankers before the Depression. Prepare to have your mind blown how smart and cold these guys are. "Capital must protect itself in every possible way, both by combination and legislation. Debts must be collected, mortgages foreclosed as rapidly as possible. When, through process of law, the common people lose their homes, they will become more docile and more easily governed through the strong arm of the government applied by a central power of wealth under leading financiers. These truths are well known among our principal men, who are now engaged in forming an imperialism to govern the world. By dividing the voters through the political party system, we can get them to expend their energies in fighting for questions of no importance. It is thus, by discrete action, we can secure for ourselves that which has been so well planned and so successfully accomplished." -- Montagu Norman, Governor of The Bank Of England, addressing the United States Bankers' Association, New York, 1924. In Chronological Order Quotes About Bankers, Banking, Money, and Usury http://www.anti-indoctrination.com/Anti-Indoctrination/Finance_Quotes.html
Ok, but this is not entirely the banks' fault, at least not in the US. IT IS OUR FAULT. The banks are going to do what they are going to do. They will always and forever be greedy. It is the American people who vote for the shills in Congress who cozy up to the banks and do their bidding. What is stopping us from sending people to the Hill who won't do that? Nothing. We think we have to vote for what the major parties put up there for us: people who are different-colored (red and blue) versions of the same thing. We don't have to vote for any of them. We can choose other candidates, but we are locked into this mindset that doing so won't work--a self-fulfilling prophecy.
I don't disagree, I just want to add something to your statement. If I knock on your door, and sell you a broken dishwasher, and have you pay 10 k for it. Yes you should be smacked on the head for being stupid, but I should also be punished for being a criminal. In the real world. People like you and me ARE being punished for being stupid (less rights, lower quality of living). But the criminals the bankers, are NOT being punished. So yeah justice should smack everyone on the head, not just us the people. But again, whos gonna do it, not me, I am on government watchlist as it is LOL