I'm mad as hell. And according to the piles and piles of responses I got after my rant, so are you. This is not a joke, trillions are being extracted from our economy by greedy bastards. And if we don't fix this problem, then we'll end up seeing what is happening in England -- uncontrolled rage-filled riots and looting -- happen here.
As Michael Tablan told his readers about my rant: "I promise you its more important than cute fucking cupcakes."
So what can you do? Well here are some action items, for starters.
1) Understand our situation, and make sure that your friends and family do as well. Our politicians and bankers play on our ignorance, since they think we won't know what they are doing. That ends now. Watch our Jobs Wanted series on rigged Trade, Taxes and Banking, and forward it to your friends and family.
2) Use your Twitter or Facebook account to be mad as hell. I've started the hashtag #ImMadAsHellBecause so people can be mad as hell in their own words. If you don't know what Twitter is or what this means, don't worry! Just go here and read what your fellow citizens are saying: #ImMadAsHellBecause
3) Call Congress and tell them NOT to pass NAFTA-style corporate trade deals with Panama, South Korea, and Colombia. The phone # for Congress is (202) 224-3121. If you are not sure who is your Representative, tell the operator you want to talk to "your House member" and give your zip code. You can find a script on what to say here: Speak Up! Take Action!
So that's a start. If you want to send me a message, use the comment section below. Or drop me an email at ImMadAsHell@dylanratigan.com.
Here are a few more or your responses.
"Worth watching. This guy's rant is probably the best thing I've heard said about the government in a very long time. I used to be really into politics a few years ago, but I've lost all faith/interest in our government because of all the dumb bullshit that's been happening the past year(s). Fuck it, I don't wanna get into it. Just watch and listen." - Where's My Key?
"Say it with me now: I'm mad as hell, and I'm not gonna take it anymore!" - nrrrd.tumblr.com
"I've been wondering for years how much it would take for the US to have a popular uprising. It always seemed like such a remote possibility, but now with student loans and the like being affected AND the rioting in England, we might be getting closer to it. :/" - The Note Desolation Plays
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i.e. Who know what a CDS is and why we have a $612 trillion un-capitalized CDS market. Answer: a great way to make a ton of money and be TBTF. Obviously it’s not to shore up risk if in the end it becomes sovereign debt problem.
This mess can be traced back to Jefferson. There has been a push, by banks, to create a fed and have no regulations for the last 150+ years.
They are very clear on what they want and have passed their goals down through generations.
So we are sold now on a way of doing business that was outdated in the 50’s and 60’s. Instead on admitting this they will invest in emerging markets where the age old way of doing business will sill bear profits and continue to kick the can down the road at home.
I am mad as hell.
NPR was interviewing two opinion holders, one was Russ Roberts from the Hoover Institute. Roberts was repeating essentially the same thing that Hoover said in 1930 about the role of Government in a depression. And the interviewer tacitly accepted his opinion without stating how, historically, it had been shown to be inept at helping. The thought that Herbert Hoover was giving us advice on how to handle the current depression made me mad as hell.
Great Britain is showing what happens when wealth disparity hits the tipping point and anarchy becomes a perceived viable option.
We seem to have lost the connection in this country between position or reward and actual accomplishment. Those who hold power have redefined accomplishment from "actually doing something" to "convincing as many people as possible that the power-holder is personally appealing." Like with our financial so-called system, it is a non-reality-based vapor-bubble that sucks all the air out of the room.
It's been decades of a steady diet of this vapor-bubble. But you can't change human nature, or even American nature. We WANT to do something. And, ultimately, being told that accomplishing things is impossible (either directly or indirectly, or, of course, both) won't hold. People have taken all the "must be something wrong with me if I'm not happy" anti-depressants they can. We want to work to do things, and we're very good at it -- the very capacity that our leaders have been exerting themselves so diligently to undermine (ironic in that if they'd just let us do what we're good at, that would be the most effective way for them to maintain their position and status, which seems to be all they care about). We are NOT going to work just to heap offerings at the feet of self-proclaimed little tin idols. They've exhausted that boondoggle.
Myself I do think we should not be NFTA in back when Clinton was in office and then Bush/ Cheney gave to power to the banks to buy every bank in every little town, was a little much. taken jobs oversea's from our steel mills and clothing and etc just because they didn't want to pay a farewage, health insurance, retirement and getting us into two wars because of Bush want to get back at Iraq for might hurt his father was a little to much to hand.
Then turning around and blaming the unions, the teachers, the middle class for putting us here and DNC which is wrong, the GOP/ Tea party put us here and they are to blame of what is going on the hill and in the world
"These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people" - Abraham Lincoln
I am sick of the extremist capitalists ruining our great society!
And, to you cynics, I have worked hard for my living all my life...
The system is broken.
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However, this time I agree with him.
Interest though, that others have 'ranted' along similar lines and have been
tarred and feathered by HuffinPuffin and othe progressive outlets.
The anger should be directed where it belongs... with the people WE sent
to represent us.
United we stand, divided we fall.
I'm glad he let go.
Have a good day