Occupying Wall Street, Again

THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT and the American people are, for all intents and purposes, held perpetual hostage to the financial services industry, a major subsidiary of the American-global corporate-military complex. (see: President Eisenhower, speech, 1-19-61). Hence the big Obama bank bailout of 2009, which anyone else, including Obama's critics, would have done, through sheer necessity. We the American people are owned and controlled by our corporate masters (read Gore Vidal, Sam harris, Chris hedges, or Noam Chomsky), pure and simple. I got my Bank of America mortgage in 2005, when I was fifty years old and poor, home values/prices were high, interest rates were high, and the housing market was hot, with much constructing, selling, and buying. I walked in, told the loan officer I had no money, a shitty but steady job, and could not make a down payment. Fine, he said, I have just the loan for you. Wow. Talk about a hot market. I started fantasing about my lovely new home, and was ready to jump at any rate of interest. (one can be old and well educated, yet quite naive, financially). This is about the same time the Bank of America was handing out debit cards to illegal aliens, and loaning Michael Jackson two hundred million dollars. Ah, the good ole boom town days! Then, the bubble burst, and we the people bailed out the entire industry, with Obama as our point man, because we/he had no choice; the financial services industry is verily too big to fail. I have gotten way ahead on my mortgage payments, and will soon pay it all off, and Bank of America, all the while, keeps offering me a refinance application, then turning me down after I fill out the paper work. Suddenly, recently, they sold my loan to another corporation, just like that. They didn't even ask my permission, amazingly. Even after the Bank of America got rid of me and my mortgage, they kept taking mortgage payments out of my checking account electronically, presumably by accident at the local level, or perhaps as part of a greater corporate conspiracy to steal from me. It only lasted two months. I called the office, and got my money back, and the payments stopped! Apology? why, of course not! My point is this: exactly what is there about the Bank of America for me to like? It is a frequently convicted serial criminal. Various forms of financial fraud, many federal convictions, billions of dollars in penalties, see public record. Meanwhile its profits are absolutely huge, and the directors, executives, and managers receive huge compensation packages. The Bank of America bankrupted itself through stupidity and greed, got we the people to bail it out with our money, and continued paying huge salaries to its executives while exploiting we the people with high interest rates and so forth, particularly we the poor people. What are we the people going to do about it? three words: Occupy Wall Street. It worked before (raised awareness) and can work again, especially if we get several million more people involved. And nobody has to camp out for six weeks, getting filthy, hungry, bored, angry, and verbally abused. You can come and go. Or come, go, and come again. You can take part in an internet version, to parallel the physical street version. The possibilities are endless. What is our platform? (we need one). 1. Greater economic economy, individually, globally. Redistribution. 2. Direct democracy, popular sovereignty, global cooperation. 3. Environmental restoration, reasonable livings standards for all. 4. No paid political advertising/money free political system......all this can be amended and augmented. But, K.I.S.S. Tell your friends! Let's start May first.