Excellent comments from Mr. Sachs. Wall Street and City of London Banksters are total SOCIO-PSYCHOPATHS!

Our legislative bodies are owned and controlled by these craven criminals who don't know the difference between right and wrong. The regulators and the courts are in bed with them as well. The rot and corruption is system-wide. And they own all the major channels of communication. The mainstream media. Higher Education. The LIBERAL CLASS, as per Chris Hedges, has sold out the country. If this cesspool is not cleaned up and soon, I fear we'll see real violence in this country. I don't expect our corrupt politicians will rise to the challenge. They have made their bargain and they don't ever gather for a coffee in a cafe with real people or walk a neighborhood to gauge sentiment.

So, I see no hope that justice will be served.

The culture of Goldman Sachs is the same up and down Wall Street! They are all thieves. Maximize profits, no matter what it takes to do it. That's the mantra. Crash Greece? Who cares? I got rich. That's all that matters.

It makes me sick to have to commit any money to a system of investing for future retirement and old age that is essentially a casino on steroids, with seemingly no one in charge. It should be shut down. Reform looks impossible.

For an excellent satire on the mindset of Wall Streeters as they meet with the homeless on the streets of NYC and as they take their vacations and buy their designer everything, see Bret Easton Ellis' "American Psycho." WARNING: The graphic violence is nauseating, however.

SICKO II: Wall Street

These greedy Wall Street Psychopaths who own the U.S. Congress and have literally destroyed American democracy are the reasons why the Occupy Movement should be multiplying their numbers, being more bold, more determined, and understanding that any radical social change rests exclusively with them. Massive nonviolent activism is the only solution, putting the fear to Wall Street for radical financial reform.
This isn't merely talking the talk, for as an activist, I have been walking the walk for the past 12 years. The truth is my opium.
It is very discouraging for me to hear so many CD posters and gutless Americans who have little faith in nonviolent civil disobedience.

I echo your sentiments, Steven. Here's where I disagree -- democracy is already destroyed.

It's a total sham. Candidates are selected, not elected, even before election day arrives. It's absolutely shameful for us to use "democracy" as the triggering excuse to invade other countries, destroy them, and install our banking presence, our oil companies and puppet leaders. We should be the last country in the world that others would want to model. It's a shame we control the ICC; otherwise, so many of our past presidents, including the present occupant, would be serving jail terms for war crimes.

Nonviolent civil disobedience always has a chance to foment change. Change never comes without a demand for it. You're right, the apathy is discouraging. But in the times we live in, with and because of the awesome police state violence witnessed last fall, perpetrated mostly by the police against mostly non-violent demonstrators, there is no where near (yet) the "critical mass" of citizen presence in the streets to scare the system enough that real, clean-out type of change needed, could occur. Not even close.

Now that the fascist and totalitarian 2012 NDAA has turned up the psy-ops screws in such a terrifying manner against all manner of dissent, it most likely will succeed in preventing "critical mass" from occurring, here in America. They don't want it to get anywhere close, which is a total violation of the Constitution. Since when has that stopped our elected representatives, who do the bidding for the powerful.

Although a cleaning up of the rotten corruption that is our government and corporate financial sector -- this wonderful "private-public" partnership they love to wax poetic about which in reality is fascism (inverted) -- would feel like a new lease on life for citizens, the odds it happening unless backed by real force, force ordinary citizens can't muster against the technological monster that makes up DHS, are slight to nil. Will there be enough switching sides to the Good Guys (us) to defeat treasonous high crimes and misdemeanors of our elected representatives? It's a scary question. It's beginning to look like the only question.

It is abundantly clear that Wall Street & The City Banksters are as much of an existential threat to the planet Earth as the fossil fuels and nuclear industries.

World of words is barking at the wrong tree. Wall street operations are only the result of the shareholders acting as elected officials making the monopoly laws and leaving the society outside. Politics is the answer but the world of words' zero level support is not to be changed soon nor acknowledged.

This is absolutely true and I believe it also applies to the congress of the United States whose corruption and sense of entitlement is beyond any possible repair as they are the only ones with the power to fix it themselves. The presidency has also become so corrupted by money that there is almost no chance that any administration would even bother to make a serious attempt to change anything. It is really a hopeless situation.

Change will come when Mother Nature puts her foot down. Americans are not good at political analysis or long range planning. It will take a series of climate disasters to awaken them and to bring down the rotten political system.