“It’s A Bank Robbery”

..And instead of imposing draconian austerity, we could stop handouts to the big banks, stop getting into imperial military adventures and stop incurring unnecessary interest costs (and see this).  This would be better for the economy as well.

Why aren’t we doing this?

Underneath the false left-versus-right puppet show, this is not a financial crisis … it’s a bank robbery.

Indeed, all of the monetary and economic policy of the last 3 years has helped the wealthiest and penalized everyone else…

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/05/liberal-stimulus-draconian-austerity-two-sides-of-the-same-coin.html