DemocracyNow.org – Two years after directing the Academy Award-winning documentary, “Inside Job,” filmmaker Charles Ferguson returns with a new book, “Predator Nation: Corporate Criminals, Political Corruption, and the Hijacking of America.” Ferguson explores why no top financial executives have been jailed for their role in the nation’s worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. We also discuss Larry Summers and the revolving door between academia and Wall Street as well as the key role Democrats have played in deregulating the financial industry. According to Ferguson a “predatory elite” has “taken over significant portions of economic policy and the political system and also, unfortunately, major portions of the economics discipline.”
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There are 2 Golden Rules.
1. “Do unto others, as you would have them do unto you”.
2. “Those with the Gold, make the Rules”
Which rule do you think our elected our elected leaders follow?
Our countries two major parties are financed, and in fact have been bought off by Wall St, the to big to fail banks, the military industrial complex, the federal reserve all of which are controlled by the Bank of England’s Rothschild family/group.
Short of a full blown revolt, Ron Paul is the only answer.
He is the only candidate running worthy of your vote. I will write in his name on my ballot, and urge you to do the same.