not to mention all the stimulus to the economy if the wealth was redistributed in a fair manner

the multiplier effect would ensure a booming economy in that case

The heads of these corporations are just doing what the system requires them to do. Get the maximum return for their shareholders. The fact that they benefit themselves is not immaterial, but is not the root of the problem; fiduciary responsibility is.

Let's admit it - the wealthy use more of the Commons, pay a much lower o er-all tax rate and have Captured the governing process.

The rich are predators, leaches and FREELOADERS!

Besides of course being anti-american. And they run the country - no wonder we're on a downward spiral.

Although the author makes valid points, there really is no need to go into so much detail anymore.

With the Federal Reserve creating trillions of dollars out of thin air for the banking system over the last three years, it is apparent that this action could be done to shore up SS and Medicare indefinitely.

Ayn Rand's "virtue of selfishness" is a spiritual oxymoron within any religious or spiritual point of view. Greed has brought humanity and the planet to a tipping point - this should be obvious by now, regardless of your belief system.

The time has come for guillotines in the public squares. Nothing else is going to stop the psychopaths who are ruining this once-great country.

Great post, joecool,.!....on a shirt of a brother : "fighting terrorism since 1492 "

Ey? roughrider...do you think big hedgie money moves markets? Do the big hedge fund managers cavort with the GoldmanSachs/investment bankers? Is there really a wall within investment banks that prevents the mortgage underwriters from talking to the market speculators or the big money managers or any combination therein...? You answer any of those and we will know your colors buddy...I been there and it is so incestuous one must shower by the hour.

Pfft, just ignore roughrider -nothing but a right-wing troll, obviously paid to spew corporate talking points. Probably a hedge-fund manager himself.

I'm not too worried, actually. Karma will take care of fucks like him, and the evil, vampiric capitalistic system that is currently driving the U.S. into 3rd-world status as we speak. There will, indeed, be hell to pay for the likes of him and all the other elite bastards that run the U.S. plutocracy. I predict, in a not-too-distant future, that the TENS OF MILLIONS of dirt-poor Americans roaming the country homeless and foodless and jobless (yes, that is where we are headed) will be toting guns and knives and headed for the gated communities where roughrider and the other Wall Street shits that put them in their plight live. Can't happen here? Wrong. Never underestimate just how nasty and brutal people can be when they are starving and have nothing left to lose.

Karma. It's going to be a real bitch for the people who put us here.

Concerning Boeing....... I heard on NPR that during the Paris Air Show, Airbus sold more than 600 aircrafts, 200 to a single airline, the largest order ever.......... Boeing sold 47! FORTYSEVEN VS 600+!!?!! I am not an expert, but I do not think that Boeing sell inferior products.-Can it be their warmongering and the incredibly stupid US policies that is finally biting their asses?

Boeings reputation got very dinged when they outsourced a bunch of engineering and design work to China and India and when all was said and done, nothing fit...had to re-do tens of billions worth...that 600 plane purchaser was well aware of it...

Oh, I'm mad alright but at whom? It's not just the Koch brothers or a few rich billionaires, it's my neighbors in 95% white and 70 % Republican Hampton Township who reverence these billionaires and their money. They vote for anyone state or Federal who will cut the "waste" in government that pays food stamps, provides Medicaid, supports higher education. Middle managers and sales reps, professional people who have won the fight for decent jobs do whatever they can to kick down those just below them on the economic ladder. They are the ones who vociferously and mindlessly support corporate America. They love Mitt but will fiercely support Bachman too. They elected Toomey and before him Santorum. Dripping with self pity about how put upon they are, their Christianity teaches self reliance and casts unflinching judgement on anyone not as successful as they are. In reality they don't care about the country as a whole and are sure that if their tax burden is lifted that will save the economy no matter how much pain it inflicts on others. If I leave this country and seek citizenship or residence elsewhere it will be because I can't stand to live among these insufferably smug and self righteous people.

The Crumbling of America - The History Channel is running a compelling documentary

on America's crumbling infrastructure right now. Every elected official from the President down to your city councilman or county commissioner needs to be watching this tonight!

http://www.history.com/shows.do?episodeId=452430&action...

"America's infrastructure is collapsing. Tens of thousands of bridges are structurally deficient or functionally obsolete. A third of the nation's highways are in poor or mediocre shape. Massively leaking water and sewage systems are creating health hazards and contaminating rivers and streams. Weakened and under-maintained levees and dams tower over communities and schools. And the power grid is increasingly maxed out, disrupting millions of lives and putting entire cities in the dark. The Crumbling of America explores these problems using expert interviews, on location shooting and computer generated animation to illustrate the kinds of infrastructure disasters that could be just around the bend."

All well and so succinctly said, Mr. Buchheit, and it is right to focus on the CEOs and assorted scum who parasitize the nation, the world. But I would suggest that after quoting the likes of Watson and Ryan that you most stridently scream 'LIARS!!!' in their faces. Because that is what they are, and it's way past time to call a spade a shovel.
But then, I just read Tom Englehardt's article on today's CD about Obama blathering up his own hypocritical arsehole about Afghanistan and the 'plan' there, along with his invocations to 'God' and all the blessings this non-existent instigator of unimaginable suffering, slavery and mind-control allegedly heaps upon What's Left Of The United States of America. Of course Obama's got his tongue firmly clamped on the ignorant arses of the electorate - the fucker wouldn't get real about thesituation if you quite literally put a gun to his head. With every passing second, Obama proves himself another whore, just as anyone with half a wit in his or her skull knew him to be the night he was elected.
Perhaps Mr Buchheit didn't regard it as part of his brief for this article, but what could be included is at least a cursory examination about the ideology, the practically-uniquely American mental illness that underpins these CEOs lying through their teeth: the one behind the New Boy Prostitute Ryan salivating over and gobbling up the syphilitic members of the elite and the conservative and the corporate in his role as Fellator In Chief; the idology and mind-control and material/military fetishes behind the mind-blowing way in which a heavy majority of Americans are willfully ignorant of the realities, skirting responsibility by claiming powerlessness, stupidly accepting All This Shit, believing, unquestioningly, in their idiotic mythology, relying on 'Jesus' to bless and save them, and generally doing sweet fuck all to save their suppurating pustule of a country by massive general strikes, boycotting the major corporations, marching through the streets in D.C. with gasoline-soaked torches in the millions.

Yes, as another Independence Day sadly dawns, most Americans WILL NOT ACCEPT, WILL NOT WAKE UP TO THEIR SLAVERY, AND WILL NOT ACT IN SUCH A MANNER AS TO RESTORE ANY JUSTIFIABLE, PROVABLE PRIDE, FREE OF RANK HYPOCRISY, IN THEIR 'INDEPENDENCE DAY'. They'll pass this July 4th believing in the same old shit, barbecuing the same old junk, high-fiving the testosterone/pick-up truck poisoned masculinist/militarist ideals that they do not have the sense, as a nation, to see are destroying them.

They are not angry enough, and it is entirely doubtful that they might get angry enough before the nine-million pound shithammer finishes descending on the cosmic road-kill that their country has become.