However, the American government’s monster bailout of banks and AIG (while neglecting production and laborers/homeowners in 2009) has appeared since 2008 to be no more than a clear case of some nearly 300 million Americans (and their nation state) serving as old men in the Bertolt Brecht metaphor. They and their dreams are being sacrificed in the name of defending the land against a promised catastrophe if those banks go under.
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2009/02/aig-to-retrade-its-bailout-yet-again.html
Naturally, the banks and financial firms, like AIG, appear to have actually been the neighborhood bullies. That is, they are not just metaphors but a monster of a man-made or nation-permitted bully (or bullies) .
Companies that actually produce things are allowed to fail, but the banks are not.
That is, in 2009, not a crumb seems to be falling to (1) those who have already lost their homes and jobs due to usurious banks and financial firms—and criminal financial terms, (2) those who soon will lose their jobs and (3) those who actually make American life substantially livable and loveable.
http://www.alternet.org/workplace/80501/
NOW
Now that we have a clear metaphor for our reality in 2009, it is time to ask you Americans, Germans, British, Irish, what-have-you the following:
ARE YOU GOING TO CONTINUE TO SIT or STAND-UP, i.e. and stop letting our old and abused citizens become even more abused by public robbery and bullying by banks and other ruffians, like Israel, AIG, Citibank, and Myanmar generals, take away savings and investment moneys which could more properly be used to help us have more productive jobs—like at car plants (i.e. cars that meet peoples needs to save energy) and other new businesses in the alternative energy and internal and international people-to-people development sectors?
Tax the wealthy abusers of the commonweal!
Make the bullies of society, like Citibank and Goldman Sachs, do time in jail and pay back through good cheap loans what they have taken from society.
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/5/1/nader_us_role_in_chry
Force them to loan and invest for the nation’s good.
NOTE: If the pie grows bigger, make these same bully financiers pay bigger shares into the kitty, too.
Stop the cycle of bullying (the old men and metaphors of the really just and need)!!! Help tax payers, citizens, and the real-little people today.
