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

[David Morris]

Right.  But the point below is that someday (soon?) the ones who'll be
paying will be those who've not been.

On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 8:33 AM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
> 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.
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