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USA Today: What Happens When Investment Bankers Run a Country

Investment bankers are not worth a small percentage of what they now get paid. They do very little, they take my money move it around, take huge fees for doing so and what have they created in doing so, a BIG NOTHING, In the process my investments or savings are destroyed.

Our countries big mistake was when everyone went gag gag over the fact that we were becoming a service industry. Yeh, we serve the bankers and they screw the country while becoming supper rich. A country which can not actually manufacture and produce products and appears to be able to only enrich a few at the expense of everyone else is not likely to be great.

The Republicans and Bush did a beautiful job over their 8 years destroying the middle class, and enriching the top 5% of the population.

I hope that Obama's policies actually bring some change for the better, but I have my doubts.

Is America Turning into a Banana Republic During This Zombie Economy?

Most of you are smoking pot, what are you talking about contract law. The laws were created to benefit the rich and powerful, the tax code is written to help the rich get richer at the expense of the rest of us. The basket of benefits which have been created to make the rich, richer at the expense of our middle class needs to be cracked. I hope that Obama is able to do it.

I have lived in several banana republics and third world countries. The actions of the Bush Administration have created the mess we are it will take a great deal of time to recover from the disaster they created. I think that Bush and the republicans never found a banana they did not like. Tax cuts to the top 5% and the heck with everyone else.
The capitalistic system was used by a few to wreck our nation for the benefit of the few.