Obama says all the right stuff, he’s admitted that it’s the system that has failed us, he just doesn’t put his money where his mouth is, as they say.

Hold on to that lever of change and pull all you want, if it’s connected to the Democratic, or republican party, ain’t nothin’ gonna happen.

If you want a simple answer, I’d say they come from a culture steeped in stoicism and see complaining as a sign of weakness.

It’s good to remember that a lot of people during the depression felt quite deeply that they themselves were responsible for their plight.

They felt they had done something wrong.

I hope you don’t mind my butting in here;

The Tea Party was either coopted, or invented by the moneyed interests, and in that way they are de-railed before they have any hope for even understanding themselves, and their interests, let alone affecting real change.

The Occupy movement seems to have understood from the start that they would be a target for take-over by the faux-left/faux-progressives of the democratic party and have resisted, so far the temptation to sell out.

Exactly!

I honestly believe that Obama simply thinks that someone has to be the one to walk point for the 1%, and be handsomely rewarded for it, and it might as well be him.

People like that laugh at us for rumaging through the tired bag of psychological excuses for behavior that is easily explained by self-interest.

The investment bankers and private equity thugs who wanted to be with the cool kids liked Obama and thought of themselves as social liberals, but accurately perceived that he’d do their bidding.

I don’t think the equity thugs and investment bankers are at all concerned with social status, being “with the cool kids” as you say, they’re utterly adept at maintaining a facade of top-notch social skills and all the while keeping a basement full of dis-membered bodies and sex slaves.

Obama isn’t a ‘cool kid’ he’s a sociopath like his W$ buddies.

Having had recent and significant experience with a skilled sociopathic crook, I can tell you that the illusion of charming humanity is the single most shocking part of the whole episode.

Which reminds me of the Irish invention, the Boycott.

If were to decide together, to refuse to make payments to a particular creditor as a show of power, the power of the powerless, if you will, we who have nothing might easily drive one of the axis-of-evil, out of existance.

I think we’re fast approaching the time when most of us are going to have to choose to forego payment on something anyway, so why not band together to make our decision meaningful?

I’ve been thinking lately that the solution to our problem is going to turn out to be similar to the Gordian Knot, that is, people are going to simply refuse to pay.

Cutting oneself free of the whole thing by giving up; I can’t pay, I won’t pay, I don’t care.

Take back the house, the car, and the diploma, see if I care.

A sort of passive revolution, a refusal to fight to maintain membership in the crooked club.

This is certain to boost sales of the book, and I suppose that’s a good thing for the author, and the kids too.

There is an animated movie of the book, well worth watching and available in its entirety on youtube, also bound to become much more popular with kids.

Isn’t it amazing what otherwise inteligent people will get up to when hounded by rabid concern trolls?

They better put an electric fence around her grave.

You know, I really love a good list.

On the whole, the American people seem quite content with stenography as opposed to journalism.

How do you propose we change that?

Why is it that all the news articles about Stocktons creditors are so vague about every debt other than money owed to Calpers?

They mention bond holders, but never mention how much is owed?

Whenever anything actually gets done in Washington, and by that I mean ‘to us’ as opposed to ‘for us’, you can bet that the minority party will kick and scream that it isn’t their fault, and if ‘they’ had their way, this travesty would never have happened.

Obummer, McConnell, Reid, Boner or Pelosi, it doesn’t matter who’s crying, those are crocodile tears and they have inevitably just delivered whatever their W$ bosses have ordered them to deliver.

Is there anyone who doesn’t understand this?