Completely Corrupt

[Barman]

It seems to me more and more obvious that the system we operate under is completely corrupt – not just the UK but the system world-wide…

Clearly the banks are culpable, they ‘created’ financial products that didn’t really exist yet went round and round in circles, increasing in value ‘til the bubble finally (and inevitably) burst…

Governments saw fit to ignore the bubble as the benefits of ‘growth’ and employment suited them.

Stock market speculators created runs on products like oil and grain and made billions out of people like you and me paying more at the pump and supermarket.

The media completely failed to report what was obvious to many of us (although the majority of the ‘sheeple’ simply took it all in)…

Now governments around the world are ploughing even more of our hard-earned into the very institutions who extorted it from us in the first place so they can reset the bubble and get back to business as normal.

There must be another way?

[Snoopy]

Read about the "South Sea Bubble"  ~ what we are suffering is nothing new. Man is a greedy animal and feeds off his own kind. Always has, always will. The trick is to be either one of the feeders OR strong enough to resist them.

[Snoopy]

This is interesting:
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23629007-details/Straw+is+dragged+into+peers+for+hire+mire/article.do

It seems the the Evening Standard have "proof" that our old pal Jack Straw-in-the-Wind has been taking back-handers from one of the named and shamed noble Lords.

I can't say I am surprised but I look forward to his mumbled, stuttering justification which will basically say "It wasn't how it looks guv."


And you gorra lurve that headline "Straw is dragged into peers for hire mire"

[Grumpmeister]

Why do we have a House of Lords anyway? It would be one thing if its members had been awarded their peerages for services to the country but we have Lords who only have a seat there because they are a hereditary peerage. A democratic system (or as in the case of this government a system that tries to pass itself off as democratic) still needs at least the illusion of accountability and the Lords has none of that, mind you with Gordo's constant attempts to implement new laws and exclude MP's from existing ones neither does the House of Commons.