Taibbi: Everything Is Rigged: The Biggest Price-Fixing Scandal Ever (WOW!)

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45. True and well said...

I am one of those people refusing to work for corporate America, but I often feel selfish because it puts a larger burden on my wife to support our family. Somehow, she is able to put on a smile, go to work for one of the largest corporate retailers in the U.S. and do her job extremely well. And, despite her superior work ethic and stellar results, the corporate cronies ride her as$ daily demanding more...

Salting the wound, there is nothing she can do but to try to give them what they want. Otherwise, she risks losing her job because there is no such thing as job security or longevity anymore. We are all a dime a dozen. We leave. Someone is right there to take our place...and, often, for less money. It is this very wage slavery that keeps average citizens from being informed. Intellectualism is dying. And, I don't know about any of you...but, every time I try to educate uninformed people with the little political knowledge I have acquired over the past several years, I am accused of being a radical. Unfortunately, even my wife views me this way on occasion. This is why I am grateful for Democratic Underground. However, I just wish there were a way to get everyone to realize that we as individuals still have the upper hand...if only, we could learn to work together. There are so many more of "us" than "them." Since we have the numbers, we could have a democracy again. We just have to believe in ourselves and each other.

This whole financial scandal gets more vast everyday and is inevitably going to crash and burn bigger than any of us can imagine. The banks are not too big to fail. Problem is, too many of us fail to recognize this.