Watt4Bob

Our elected leaders in Washington have quietly passed legislation that makes it easier for the financial industry to foreclose on American home-owners by making it harder to detect the fraudulent paperwork that underpins the foreclosure process. Furthermore, that fraudulent paperwork is key evidence of the exact nature of the fraud involved in the market for the complex investment vehicles based on mortgage-backed securities that lie at the heart of our coutry’s economic problems.

The 50 wealthiest lawmakers were worth about $85.1 million more than 12 months earlier.
There really are two different economies, one Washington cares about, and one it doesn’t

Modern fascism has evolved beyond the need to hide behind a supreme leader.

If we want to effectively address the issue of peace in the Middle East, it would help if to disabuse ourselves of the foolish notion that Israel somehow controls the governments of Britain and the United States.

Transocean toolpusher Jason Anderson told his father that he was fearful because BP was straying from proper procedures in order to speed up the job. Jason wrote a will, put his affairs in order, told his wife that if anything happened to him Transocean would take care of her, then he went back to work on the Deepwater Horizon where he was killed in the explosions that sank the platform.

BP, Halliburton, and Transocean would prefer we believe that frozen methane deposits are the culprit rather than face questions about their own possibly willful recklessness.

The well that now threatens to become the biggest oil rig disaster in history is also an example of the way that big corporations keep us in the dark about what thay are doing an how they are doing it.

Those responsible for the Horizon oil-spill have cut corners and violated regulations, leaving us vulnerable to ecological catastrophe.

While everyone is busy crying about losing the HCR battle, they’re loosing sight of the fact that it’s only one battle in a war we’ll be fighting the rest of our lives.

The two political parties realize they must raise taxes, neither wants to be first to say so.