Was the Obama troop withdrawal announcement supposed to distract from this?

How about 10% on every stock transaction fee and 1% on every institutional level transaction where millions of shares are bought and sold in the blink of an eye. When market makers move shares, it’s in the millions at a time either a buy or sell order, so this would be a surcharge on their crooked, but ‘legal’ casino activities, the same would for commodity trades too. In fact America has become one big ‘gaming op’ for the deep pocket money guys that have managed to turn this nation into such for their pirate capitalist ends.

America’s manufacturing infrastructure has been intentionally ‘murdered’ turning into simply a “FIRE economy” ; one based on flaming ‘hot’ paper assets; I.E. , Finance, Insurance and Real Estate.

It will also be the undoing of this nation. : |

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIRE_economy

Carl Nemo **==

10-4, Cap’n Nemo, especially a tax on the leetle gaming operation called Wall Street! It’d be a sin not to!

Yes, I welcome comment. Yes, I love debate. I don’t like it when the debate gets personal. Sometimes, I lose my temper. It happens less now than it used to and it takes a lot to rile me these days. Life is too short and I’ve come to peace with myself.

Let’s chalk it up to lessons learned on both sides.

Was it I that was spoiling for a fight that day? I made a comment on the article, which happened to be the story of the day. Maybe I ignored the Bernanke story because it didn’t catch my eye. Or maybe I ignored it because I didn’t want to seem like I was “dominating” the discussion.

Or maybe I just don’t give a damn. Either way, I didn’t start that fight. I made a comment, which is what you welcome here.

I’m sorry about your mother.

Seemingly these representative ‘boneheads’ are spring-loaded in the stupid position.

Has it occurred to them we need both serious cuts “and” taxes raised to get out of our financial fix? If any tax is implmented, the proceeds from such can only be dedicated to reducing our soaring debt plus interest with such tax revenues applied to reducing principle on an annual basis. We’ll call it a ‘surplus’ as a function of this special taxation. Canada has done so; ie., applying surpluses to reduce their national debt and so can we as a nation. It will also make us feel well about ourselves that we doing something constructive to pay our national ‘bills’.

A VAT tax along with an imbedded ‘sin’ tax on lottery games, casinos and other such frivolous endeavors could slowly but surely dig our way out of insolvency, but it must be linked to only to debt reduction along with massive, serious spending cuts now and into the future.

Will they do this? Not only no, but hell no! Their collective attitude is “I’ve got mine”…relative to their pay, percs and connections; ie., an assured place in the ‘bunker’ post holocaust or mass civil unrest post a finanicial collapse. For the rest of us it’s “screw you”…no?

Carl Nemo **==

Glad to see you folks rising above the waves to make some comments. I became concerned that illness or an accident had occurred. Welcome back to the fray of shared opinions. : )

Carl Nemo **==