NP - Jamie Dimon and the Gambling Away of All of Us

[David Morris]

http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/jamie-dimon-congress-testimony-9678137

It is considered declasse in our higher politics to mention this, but
there actually is a class war underway in America, and it doesn't need
politicians to stoke it. It happens in millions of little battles
every day, over mortgages, and college loans, and retirement, and the
simple, granite-like impassibility of the country's elites in the face
of what's happening to the great mass of people in this country. Now,
it's possible that our firmly purchased political system may be able
to continue to divert the energies of that war in the directions most
amenable to maintaining the status quo. (Blame the black people, the
regulators, the drum circles, public school teachers, the Community
Reinvestment Act, Van Jones!) But, sooner or later, someone's going to
be desperate enough — or bold enough — to grab that energy and ride it
to glory, and we all better goddamn hope that person has a good heart,
because those kind of things can go awfully badly wrong. What the Wall
Street casino is playing with is not house money. It belongs to all of
us. They are gambling not merely with currency, but with the stability
of the political system. Someone is going to pay.