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

[Joseph Tracy]

Someone is already paying and it isn't Diamond or the politicos from both parties who serve the 1 %. 
On Jun 13, 2012, at 4:20 PM, David Morris wrote:

> 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.