Showing posts with label Alexander Cockburn. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alexander Cockburn. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 13, 2013

“The finest schools in America produced a criminal elite that stole the store in less than a decade."

Commentary by Roger Erickson

No, that wasn't written by Bill Black.

Rather, it's the final output from recently demised Alexander Cockburn - and, incidentally, highly recommended (personally) by a pre-eminent chronicler of the MICC and Pentagon corruption.

A Road Trip Through Political Scandal, Corruption and American Culture

Is that what "No Child Left Behind" was really all about? Creating a Gresham's dynamic, where the Keating-5 could be free to become the Cheating-450, and then the Keeping-1%?

"Everyone's doing it!" The new motto for the GOP AND DNP alike.

Even a return to Glass-Steagall wouldn't be enough. We need to set our sights high enough to survive a context ol' Mr. Glass couldn't have imagined the extent of. We need a Black-Cockburn Act, to once again impose minimal separation of graft and state.

ps: How long will it take us to recover the storehouse of Middle Class resiliency ... if we can do it at all?