Fuck Sheldon Adelson

The casino mogul makes $3.3 million EVERY FUCKING HOUR.  EVERY HOUR.  and he's spending millions backing newtbag gingrich for the election.  our electoral system is so beyond fucked.  the wealthiest people in this country completely control our political system, and their grip on power is only going to get worse with the coming barrage of campaign money.  Citizens' United will prove to be the absolute worst court decision, in our country or any other, ever.  There is simply no justification for unlimited corporate spending on elections, other than the fact that republicans know they'll be able to cling to power by allowing it.

Fuck the Waltons

Fuck the richest family in America, the Waltons, who have a combined net worth of $93 billion.  If they were a country, they'd be the 59th wealthiest COUNTRY in the world.  They earned a combined $2 billion on capital gains and dividends last year, which I'm sure you know by now are taxed at half the rate of income.  That's nearly 5 and a half million dollars EVERY FUCKING DAY; $3,800 every fucking minute.  That's how much money they make.  Every ten minutes, they earn as much as many families do in a year.

and under dickwad Gingrich's tax plan, they would save more than another $300,000,000 per year in taxes.

fuck the waltons, fuck newt gingrich, and fuck the entire republican (and most of the democratic) establishment that permits for, nay lauds, this shit.  this is beyond an obscene amount of money.  They could get rid of 99% of their net worth and still be worth $930 MILLION FUCKING DOLLARS.  Meanwhile we've got half the fucking country needing some sort of government assistance, people starving across the globe, and countless millions of people homeless both here and abroad.

Fuck Mitt Romney

and his money-grubbing vulture capitalistic ass.  He made his $200 million fortune by fucking over companies, forcing way too much debt on them, and cutting jobs and literally stealing pensions right out of the working man's pockets.

this whole system is so fucking fucked.  how anyone could make such a fortune fucking over average people is revolting.  everything done in the financial sector of our economy is designed to benefit the extremely wealthy at the expense of everyone else.  Every fucking thing.

Greedy MFers

I just read an interesting article on how major banks and financial institutions are sitting on more than $3.5 TRILLION in cash reserves that could very easily be invested in large projects that could effectively end the jobs crisis and revamp the economy in very little time.  But they refuse to lend at a reasonable rate and want to just continue to watch their wealth grow while the country stagnates.  I swear conservatives are intentionally destroying our economy running up to the 2012 election, so they can try to pin it on Obama's failure.  The only thing is, if they're successful, we're in for a far worse situation than we currently face, because Republicans have consistently proven over the past 5 decades that they care very little for fiscal discipline or fixing the problems our country faces.

Financial Prosecutions Hit a 20-Year Low

Because no one in the financial industry uses criminal, illegal, or otherwise amoral tactics, and the industry is much less corrupt now than it was 20 years ago.

And I'm from Jupiter.

Chamber of Commerce CEO's Sweet Gig

Tom Donohue, the president and CEO of the Chamber of Commerce, big business' biggest lobby in DC, took in $4.7 million in compensation last year alone, as the economy continued to falter and job creation didn't keep up with the rate of unemployment.  So clearly he earned it.  This is the same guy who says public sector (i.e. government) employees' compensation is bloated and that their benefits are "out of control."  Fuck you Tom Donohue.

Goodbye Middle Class

Quick link to a story about a new study showing that the number of Americans living in economically diverse neighborhoods is actually shrinking.  Neighborhoods are becoming more segregated as wealthy people move into gated communities and such and poor people are hoarded together in slums.  This is exactly how capitalists want society to be structured, so they don't have to intermingle with us common folk.  This helps lead to further segregation of schools and social institutions, and further removes wealthy people from any semblance of real life and its struggles.

Launch/Rant

I'm just fucking fed up.  I'm fed up with the bullshit we're spoonfed incessantly about the wonders of the free market, and how deregulation and lower taxes will lead to job creation and economic recovery.  I'm fed up with having only two political parties that both serve the same interests and insulate themselves from outside attacks.  I'm fed up with people buying the notion that corporations deserve the same rights as people without having any accountability or responsibility.  For that matter, I'm fed up with corporations wreaking havoc on the environment, society, and the economy, and our stupid fucking elected leaders helping them to do it.  I'm fed up with the fact that wages haven't increased AT ALL for anyone other than the top 10% of people in this country over the past four-five decades, while those at the very top live in luxury completely unimaginable to the majority of us.

I'm fed up with people believing that capitalism is a beneficial economic structure for anything other than those who already wield hugely disproportionate amounts of power, money, and influence.  I'm tired of our tragic joke of a media that does more to support this raping of American than to stop it.  I'm tired of all the bullshit.

Fuck Capitalism.  It doesn't work for me, it probably doesn't work for you, and it sure as hell doesn't work for the majority of us.