dimelab dimelab: shrinking the gap between talk and action.

America Goes Topic in The Credit Debacle Catalog

America goes hungry (1).

Fri 2010-02-26 16:37 EST

Wall Street's Bailout Hustle : Rolling Stone

...The nation's six largest banks -- all committed to this balls-out, I drink your milkshake! strategy of flagrantly gorging themselves as America goes hungry -- set aside a whopping $140 billion for executive compensation last year, a sum only slightly less than the $164 billion they paid themselves in the pre-crash year of 2007..."What is the state of our moral being when Lloyd Blankfein taking a $9 million bonus is viewed as this great act of contrition, when every penny of it was a direct transfer from the taxpayer?" asks Eliot Spitzer...A year and a half after they were minutes away from bankruptcy, how are these assholes not only back on their feet again, but hauling in bonuses at the same rate they were during the bubble? The answer to that question is basically twofold: They raped the taxpayer, and they raped their clients...a brief history of the best 18 months of grifting this country has ever seen...

Rolling Stone; Wall Street's Bailout Hustle.

Wed 2008-07-09 00:00 EDT

Tomgram: Chris Hedges, War and Occupation, American-style

Collateral Damage: What It Really Means When America Goes to War, by Chris Hedges; "The war in Iraq is now primarily about murder."

American-style; Chris Hedges; occupancy; Tomgram; war.

Thu 2008-06-05 00:00 EDT

Tomgram: Chris Hedges, War and Occupation, American-style

Collateral Damage: What It Really Means When America Goes to War, by Chris Hedges

American-style; Chris Hedges; occupancy; Tomgram; war.