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6. Americans are at an economic epiphany
Thu Dec 12, 2013, 05:17 AM
Dec 2013

with an intense curiosity in why the economy runs 24/7 but Wall Street only turns on between 9:00am and 3:00pm New York time. With a laugh and a chuckle many will start to call this time the bailout hour.

Think about it, a free market system in America that only allows the mass electorate to trade and deal within a very narrow market window. Is that really a free market? Not really. When they say the political persons are making a deal behind closed doors is that fair representation? Not really.

The more I think about our system and the way it works stagers the mind. We elect and appoint people to be secret, or our deciders are secret, or the Congress is secret, or the Senate is secret, or the latest bill is secretly talked about behind closed doors. Then our political people condemn a first responder, Snowden, in the economic secret metadata system as a trader in treason to let everyone know hey our public elected officials that meet in secret are secretly looking at all of us.

Then it is just released from secret meetings in our political Congress that secretly all secret billionaires are secretly dumping millions of shares of stock into the stock market. Those in the know secretly envision a looming market crash. So, secret meetings are held to avert the secret time of the secret market crash.

Most of all the mainstream media is the real secret place. Many times it can be seen as the “laughing place” right in your face. The mainstream media has all the answers and know who really did what but they have what is called the right to protect their sources. That is to keep the sources a secret.

So America is tangled in secret representation and secret mainstream media. Then many wonder why we all want be by ourselves alone where no one will bother the individual. Is that what is called quality time. Sure is.

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K&Rec blue14u Dec 2013 #1
The PTB thinks the truth sucks. They want you to believe the shit they're serving. loudsue Dec 2013 #2
"They step around any mention of raising or eliminating the cap like it's a cat turd on the carpet." SunSeeker Dec 2013 #3
I agree. I laughed out loud. EastHarlemGayDude Dec 2013 #32
It isn't Social Security that Wall Street is worried about. JDPriestly Dec 2013 #4
And there's no one with money to replace the boomers because Wall Street already bled younger folks yurbud Dec 2013 #8
Right. Ridiculous student loans to be repaid from jobs that don't exist. JDPriestly Dec 2013 #12
parking tickets and meters are a way to tax the poor and working class yurbud Dec 2013 #15
Thom Hartmann BelgianMadCow Dec 2013 #5
Americans are at an economic epiphany polynomial Dec 2013 #6
secrecy is a tough commodity to hold onto anymore as Snowden and Wikileaks have shown. yurbud Dec 2013 #10
Only for the masses quakerboy Dec 2013 #17
you would be surprised. Remember Greg Palast getting a bunch of Karl Rove's emails? yurbud Dec 2013 #18
What if ... King_Klonopin Dec 2013 #7
if we had politicians we could trust, I would be up for that yurbud Dec 2013 #9
k&r for Elizabeth Warren. n/t Laelth Dec 2013 #11
Dear Third Way: The gig is up and the party's over. AmBlue Dec 2013 #13
Notice they haven't shown up in this thread yurbud Dec 2013 #14
Kicked and recommended. Uncle Joe Dec 2013 #16
We are but a small minority in the party 4dsc Dec 2013 #19
We are the majority, especially on core economic issues. But corporate Dems get the big bucks and yurbud Dec 2013 #20
I like your style but it does not fit with what I hear 4dsc Dec 2013 #21
yep. currently, politicians count their constituents in dollars, favors, and future jobs for yurbud Dec 2013 #23
This: "Wall Street is a fucking crack addict" TBF Dec 2013 #22
VIDEO: Samuel L Jackson nailed it in Jungle Fever, and the rest of us are Wesley Snipes yurbud Dec 2013 #24
Excellent! nt TBF Dec 2013 #25
Truthfully, I fear for her. This woman will be stalked and subjected to Cleita Dec 2013 #26
The voters of MA like her just fine. She's safe with us. nt MADem Dec 2013 #27
I hope you guys circle your wagons because once she steps on Cleita Dec 2013 #28
We like her. In her short time in the Senate, her constituent outreach is second-to-none. MADem Dec 2013 #29
those Sunday talk shows are painful infomercials anyway yurbud Dec 2013 #30
The commercials -- Boeing, ADM, etc.--it's like "Who are they advertising to?" MADem Dec 2013 #31
Recommend! KoKo Dec 2013 #33
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