A dollar in the hand of a banker is worse than a handgun in the hand of a killer. [View all]

[jtuck004]

Because you already know bankers have been responsible for more death and tragedy than any gunman or terrorist has ever aspired to or accomplished.

And they, the wealthy, their own little banks among themselves, didn't work for that dollar. You did. We did. They just worked to take it from us after we built, or taught, or created, or or fed, or housed.... but not from the backs of others. We make half-hearted efforts, at best, to aid their most egregious yet ongoing and profitable victims, and make it possible for them to eat the wealth from the middle of the country. We don't just offer, we insist that they take trillions of dollars of mythical money, created by electrons and tell everyone else they must pay the bill.

Do we do this because we derive some great benefit from their remaining intact while there is so much misery, that they had a leading hand in creating, around them?

Can anyone tell me, please, what they can possibly offer that is worth that?

I just can't remember the last drive by in a really wealthy neighborhood that got much attention, and they don't seem to shoot up their own schools or churches. When is the last time there was a shooting where people who make $200,000 a week go to school? Or church? Am I just missing it somehow, a family crime scene strewn with diamonds and gold? Most of what I see is among those who have no opportunity because the wealthy are taking all the magic money that would change people's lives.

Secure the loose guns, help the people who need help.

But it strikes me that unless we address the economic disparity we might be just treating a symptom and not addressing the disease.