Time for US people to protest!

[jcampjr]

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/why-isnt-wall-street-in-jail-20110216

Reading this article makes me want to take to the streets!

[wingsofhope]

It's coming and soon

[truckdriver]

BECAUSE IT WAS"NT WALL STREET {IT WAS CLINTON WHEN HE PASTED THE BILL THAT GIVE POEPLE HOMES WHO COULD NOT AFFORD THEM [THE DEM AND ONLY THE DEM }

[eddieisme]

BECAUSE IT WAS"NT WALL STREET {IT WAS CLINTON WHEN HE PASTED THE BILL THAT GIVE POEPLE HOMES WHO COULD NOT AFFORD THEM [THE DEM AND ONLY THE DEM } :angry: :angry:

Hey truckdriver,

The Dems had a lot to do with it but the Wall Streeters raped it for all it was worth. They are all f*&^%$*g crooks.

[wingsofhope]

Wall Street packaged all the crap loans and sold them to EU and other institutions and banks. Originally if was Barney Frank and his lakies that started this whole mess under orders from Bill and Hillarious Clinton

[R2d2dc]

Many people and companies saw the golden goose and tried to grab it. Greed was alive and well

[PhillyDinar]

yes americans do need to take to the streets however the majority of americans are too damn lazy until its too damn late!

[BanG]

http://www.rollingst...n-jail-20110216

Reading this article makes me want to take to the streets!

ROFL! Your a day late and a dollar short! The time to begin protesting was in 1980, that being said Our time has passed and we will be passing the proverbial torch to another country not to far off in the future.

http://english.pravd...s_currencies-0/

U.S. states start to print their own currencies

Many U.S. communities are creating their own currencies now. They try to help consumers and companies to fight the global financial crisis and the recession.

The idea, borrowed from the Depression era when the currencies were known as "scrip", is designed to boost local spending and keep money circulating within the community.

Typically, a group of businesses print a new currency which shoppers can then buy at a discount – typically one dollar will cost 90 to 95 cents – and spend at full value with participating companies.

Some of the currencies have been around for years but the recent economic downturn has encouraged others to follow suit. According to some estimates, there are now more than 75 local currency systems across the country.

Others include the Ithaca Hours in upstate New York and the Plenty in North Carolina.

Under US law, small communities can produce their own currency so long as it does not include coins and does not resemble federally-issued money.

The currencies are not a tax dodge as the income to participating businesses is liable to tax.

In Traverse City, Michigan, more than 100 businesses accept Bay Backs, among them restaurants, B&Bs, a doctor, accountant and even a tarot card reader.

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Around $2 million worth of BerkShares – the most established local currency – is circulating in the Berkshires, a rural area in southern Massachusetts, telegraph.co.uk reports.

The beautifully-illustrated notes portray local "heroes", including the author Herman Melville, the artist Norman Rockwell and a tribe of Mohicans.

A good example of local currency at work is an experiment done in 1930’s in the city of Worgl, in Austria. It was time of the Great Depression; the small town of 4000 people had unemployment of 30%, with huge local government debt. In 1931, the city major ordered printing of 32,000 labor certificates, that carried a negative 1% monthly interest rate and could be converted into the Austrian currency at 98% face value. The new currency restarted a number of public projects mostly involving infrastructure and within a year the revenue of the local government rose from 2,400 AS (Austrian schillings) to 20,400, while the unemployment was virtually eliminated, all with no increase in prices. With the rest of Austria still gripped by the economic downturn, other communities followed with installing local currencies.

Naturally the socialist party of Austria wasn’t satisfied with the program and neither was the Austrian central bank, afraid of losing power over currency. As a result, the experiment was shut down, the unemployment went back up and the local economy caught up in deterioration with the rest of the country, examiner.com reports.

Local currency, on a much larger scale, is currently at work in the European Union. There are several countries within the Union that still use their own national currencies instead of Euro – the official currency in EU.

OHHH and I forgot, Wall street was sold to Germany..... we do not even own our own Stock Market anymore....LOLOL....

Deutsche Boerse's $9.53 Billion NYSE Purchase May Lead to More TakeoversBy Whitney Kisling, Nandini Sukumar and Elizabeth Stanton - Feb 15, 2011 4:07 PM ET

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-02-15/deutsche-boerse-nyse-directors-said-to-vote-today-on-combining-exchanges.html

The Knife is in our BACK now. Just for the hell of it GOOGLE Capital building sale.......... We sold our US Capital building and now lease the space back!!!!

[jg1]

Wall Street packaged all the crap loans and sold them to EU and other institutions and banks. Originally if was Barney Frank and his lakies that started this whole mess under orders from Bill and Hillarious Clinton

Yes, and maybe he is related as he looks alot like your picture. Kidding, like ;your posts. He does look like a pig though.

[rjboots1]

When you're looking for someone to point fingers at, please don't try to distinguish between "career politicians" (Barney Frank, Pelosi, Rangall, Clintons) and Wall Street. They're all the same. The politicians like to play tough guy when they're asking questions at a televised hearing, but they're in bed with the bankers on Wall Street and they're all guilty. And it's not the money. There's nothing wrong with lots of money. That's what we're all hoping for. It's the LOVE of money. Add a little human greed, selfishness, situational ethics, peer pressure, and you come up with full-blown corruption. From Wall Street to Capitol Hill to Pennsylvania Avenue, it's all the same. My prayer is that none of us fall prey to these temptations, and that we all do honorable and meaningful things with our soon-found wealth.