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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe RICH are stealing our money, NOT the poor, the elderly, the disabled...
daleanime
(17,796 posts)and stolen, sorry about that.
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)Dragonfli
(10,622 posts)Octafish
(55,745 posts)Buy Partisan
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)her running mate.
appalachiablue
(41,131 posts)Dragonfli
(10,622 posts)stonecutter357
(12,697 posts)rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)stonecutter357
(12,697 posts)rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)Rolando
(88 posts)I still want to know whether people are corporations. Can we go to the Caymans, get a post office box (shared), and evade U.S. taxes?
Divernan
(15,480 posts)great
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)Goldman will always be her co-pilot. Not to say puppetmaster.
SamKnause
(13,101 posts)yeah
progressoid
(49,988 posts)rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)mountain grammy
(26,620 posts)Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)tclambert
(11,085 posts)On-line bank robbers stole more than traditional stick-up men: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-15/online-bank-robbers-steal-as-much-as-1-billion-says-kaspersky
Banks charged $31.9 billion in overdraft fees in 2013. http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304157204579475573602576630
While only about 14.4% goes toward covering the actual costs of overdrafts. http://abcnews.go.com/Business/banks-reap-profits-overdraft-fees-consumers-lose/story?id=19373572
Sounds like the bankers win.
99Forever
(14,524 posts)Here's a starting point:
Close every account you have with the Banksters(ie, Wells Fargo, Chase, Citi, Amex, USBank, etc.) and transfer every penny to a CREDIT UNION where you are NOT a customer (sucker), instead your are a owner and member.
If ALL of us do this, the thieves will fold up like the cheap suits they are. Put the scum-sucking rip off artists OUT OF BUSINESS forever. Quit feeding the filthy bastards.
SusanCalvin
(6,592 posts)And done, a long time ago.
Omnith
(171 posts)Agony
(2,605 posts)"Some banks are asking state legislators to pass resolutions calling on the U.S. Congress to eliminate the nonprofit status of credit unions, effectively imposing new taxes on the banks smallest of rivals. Click here to see if too big to fail banks are targeting your state."
Divernan
(15,480 posts)Just got my auto-draft from my credit union yesterday. Next week I do a lease buyout on my 3 yr. old car with only 11,000 miles on it.
Martin Eden
(12,864 posts)Blessed are the War Makers, sayeth Christian conservatives in America.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)And banks like my bank Chase, always try to rip a $6.00 check cashing fee from a $25.00 check I pay to someone to do a small task. because their tellers get a bonus from every fee they collect from those who can least afford the $6.00 loss!
truedelphi
(32,324 posts)local grocery stores cash any local person's checks. Without a single cent taken out as a fee or surcharge!
I have saved so much money just on that one facet of life in the country.
colsohlibgal
(5,275 posts)They've tried blaming spending (other than for the war machine), they've dominated the narrative since the B actor was president.
No more, debt problems are mostly tied to lack of revenue - all due to low or no tax rates for rich people and corporations. Welfare for the gilded set, the 21st century robber barons.
Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders are leading the charge to get everyday citizens to think, to blame the real culprits rather than a welfare queen or two.
malthaussen
(17,193 posts)They make their money the old-fashioned way: they steal it.
-- Mal
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)at the point of a sword.
whereisjustice
(2,941 posts)Clintons.
Divernan
(15,480 posts)so potential corporate investors cough/boodsuckers/cough looking to take advantage of cheap labor could visit in comfort. Those damned ungrateful, greedy Haitians (do I need a sarcasm emoticon?) expected the Clinton Foundation to direct the "donations" cough/bribes/cough to replace housing destroyed by the earthquake. But that $45 million was used to build a 500 room hotel. That works out to $90,000 per room. Way to go, Clinton Foundation! ! !
Once all of the carnage was assessed, more than 100,000 buildings were damaged or destroyed, hundreds of thousands of people were left without homes and Haiti's government put the death toll at 316,000, according to ABC News.
Five years later, after billions of dollars of aid and donations, many are still living in abject poverty created by the earthquake. NBC News notes that while some $13 billion went to the country, more than "85,000 people still live in crude displacement camps and many more in deplorable conditions."
NBC News does note that while many of the roads destroyed by the earthquake have been repaired and some businesses have been rebuilt, very few people displaced by the massive quake have acquired permanent housing.
http://www.theroot.com/articles/culture/2015/01/_5_years_after_massive_earthquake_where_is_haiti_now.html
Ten facts about Haitis housing crisis from Amnesty International
12 January 2015, 00:00 UTC
Amnesty Internationals new report: 15 minutes to leave - Denial of the right to adequate housing in post-quake Haiti documents the tragic lack of progress made rebuilding the country since the 2010 earthquake five years ago and finds:
1. More than 2 million people were left homeless after the earthquake that struck Haiti on 12 January 2010.
2. According to the latest data (September 2014) 123 camps for internally displaced people (IDPs) remain open in Haiti, housing 85,432 people.
3. Conditions in many IDP camps are dire. A third of all those living in camps do not have access to a latrine. On average 82 people share one toilet. (Compare to 500 toilets at the luxury hotel Clinton "facilitated" - used by 1 or 2 people each.)
4. Forced evictions from camps are a serious and ongoing problem. More than 60,000 people were forcibly evicted from their shelters in makeshift camps since 2010. About a quarter of those remaining in camps are at risk of forced evictions. Amnesty International has documented six cases of forced evictions from IDP camps and informal settlements hosting IDPs since April 2013 alone. More than 1,000 families were affected.
5. Around 37,000 houses are known to have been repaired, rebuilt or built. However, less than 20% of the housing solutions provided as a response to the disaster could be seen as long-term, or sustainable. Instead most programmes have simply provided temporary measures, such as the construction of temporary shelters and the allocation of rental subsidies.
6. Rental subsidies are a common method used by the government and humanitarian organisations. Subsidies of US$500 are handed out to help people pay rent in private accommodation. However, a 2013 survey found that nearly half of those that had been receiving grants had to move out of their homes once the grants ended. Three quarters were forced to move into sub-standard accommodation.
7. Canaan, a large area in the outskirts of Port-au-Prince, has seen its population grow exponentially since the area was declared for public use in March 2010. It is now estimated to be home to around 200,000 people. Many of the residents are people made homeless by the earthquake. In the absence of state interventions in the area, people are building their houses as best as they can and have created their own, often inadequate ways to cope with access to water, waste management and security. Many people in Canaan live under threat of being forcibly evicted.
8. Several infrastructure projects are being undertaken as part of the post-earthquake reconstruction. However, hundreds of families have been forcibly evicted from downtown Port-au-Prince in May 2014 in order to clear the area for the construction of public administration buildings.
9. There was a crisis in the housing sector even before the earthquake. Then Haitis national housing deficit was estimated at 700,000 units. At least another 250,000 houses were destroyed or badly damaged by the earthquake. Housing was the sector most affected by the earthquake, with a total damage of US$ 2.300 billion (approximately 40% of the overall damage of the earthquake).
10. The problems in Haiti persist despite the US$13.34 billion pledged by the international community and financial institutions in humanitarian and recovery funding during the post-earthquake response.
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https://www.amnesty.org/en/articles/news/2015/01/ten-facts-about-haiti-s-housing-crisis/
whereisjustice
(2,941 posts)Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)They just know the poor are lazy moochers, especially the black and Mesican ones.
Thespian2
(2,741 posts)I got an SS raise last year...I spend the entire monthly raise on a bottle of cheap wine..Sure is hell to get old...but it is better than the alternative...
truedelphi
(32,324 posts)Enabling.
Both Republican and Democratic Administrations have been into endless wars, that are not winnable.
Both parties favor the unregulated, Big Time Financial players. The most sensible thing that Obama could have done was to have reinstated Glass Steagall, but he was "persuaded" otherwise.
Both parties have important politicians who support Monsanto and other GM seed producers.
Ditto, fracking of our land and aquifers.n (If Gov. Jerry Brown can DECREE that home owners cut back on water useage by 25%, where is his decree to stop the fracking interests that use millions of gallons of water in a week?)
Both like the idea of charter schools.
Both lack the will to make the taxation policies less regressive. (If Europeans have less regressive policies, why can't we?)