You're right, editec. In 2008, we were promised this:I cannot BLAME most companies that are sitting on oodles of cash for not investing it in job creation.
There are people, PEOPLE WITH NAMES AND HISTORIES, who truly are guilty of crashing this economy.
Turning their CRIMES (in COLLUSION with other PEOPLE IN THE GOVERNMENT... WHO ALSO HAVE NAMES) into a mindless class conflict screed is counter-productive.
Capitalism is NOT the villian.
GOVERNMENT is NOT the villian.
Corruption of the capitalism system in collusion with a corrupted government IS the problem.
Not every person with capital, not even every member of the TOP 1% or the top 1/10th of 1% is guilty of ANYTHING.
What has happened is that we have allowed immoral people in some businesses to take over and control our government.
That's exactly how they could CRASH the economy, GET PAID BY THE GOVERNMENT FOR DOING SO, and still nobody is guilty of any CRIME.
It isn't a class war (yeah yeah, of course class is important, obviously)
It's a battle for the SOUL of this nation.
And MAMMON is winning, folks.
[ame=http://youtu.be/6jJvkkNmR_8]Obama Declares Plan to Cut Deficit in Half - YouTube[/ame]
Not only was the deficit not cut in half by the end of 2012, the Debt Clock in Real Time says our debt is $16,874,323,500,000.00 right now.