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Second U.S. 'Bank-for-Businesses' Faces Bankruptcy

Wow...

Your comment should be a must read for all Americans... maybe some of them would wake up and smell the rot that is coming their way...


On Aug 07 01:55 AM TeresaE wrote:

> I've been watching the wholesale destruction of American small business
> (real estate exempt-until recently) for over six years.
>
> It took me two years to really begin to add up all the different
> situations (most created, or at least legalized by the government)
> that were converging to create the perfect storm.
>
> For a long time, I thought that "free trade," protectionism for unions,
> pharmaceuticals, WalMart & other mega-nationals, increased regulations
> and costs in the name of "safety," the repeal of Glass-Steagall,
> I really thought that all of this was just a comedy of errors and
> the rule of unintended consequences.
>
> I don't think it is a comedy anymore, nor an error. Not anymore,
> and not for a long time.
>
> The American working, dream chasing middle class is being systematically
> eradicated to benefit the multi-nationals, unions and the government
> and their special interests.
>
> They keep us divided over non-Constitutional bullshit and have erased
> an entire strata of our society.
>
> With the blessing of the non-working and the elite.
>
> Small business USED to employ 70% of the non-government.
>
> Small business USED to pay 50% of all payroll taxes, with the owners
> paying another huge chunk of the annual theft by Washington.
>
> Not anymore, and not since 2005.
>
> Yet, NO ONE noticed. And not ONE reporter has even tried to uncover
> the reasons for this historical change.
>
> And, even as you drive by the empty (or emptying) buildings, offices,
> storefronts and factories, Americans REFUSE to see the truth.
>
> Those small businesses were YOUR jobs, your KIDS future jobs, your
> CUSTOMERS and your customers' CUSTOMERS.
>
> And they are gone, or dying on the vine.
>
> Wake the f*ck up people. BOTH sides have done this to us.
>
> WE continue to ASK for it.
>
> And yet, we stand back surveying the current damage and do nothing.
>
>
> For those of us that SEE what is happening, and SEE that nothing
> will stop this train from destroying this nation, we are in disbelief.
>
>
> EVERY program coming out of Washington INTENTIONALLY picks winning
> & losing industries (and companies). Losers are the little guy,
> our backbone and greatness. Winners are the campaign contributors
> and radicals from both sides.
>
> And Washington has NEVER managed anything well, to expect that these
> choices will fare any better is insanity at its finest.
>
> Reading news stories and comments on the coming jobs killing health
> care, immigration and energy bills, it becomes obvious.
>
> Both sides have so brainwashed their sheep that doom is imminent
> no matter what.
>
> We are too divided, and hell let's face it, too shallow to do a damn
> thing to stop the destruction.
>
> Thanks again Jeff for continuing to report the truth. Just wish more
> cared and were actually doing anything about it.