Showing posts with label graft. Show all posts
Showing posts with label graft. Show all posts

Thursday, October 9, 2014

Graft & Corruption, Here We Come

   (Commentary posted by Roger Erickson)


Courtesy of Middle Class Citizen's Ignited

FEC just ruled that parties can now raise twice as much cash by earmarking contributions for national conventions

But we'll finally balance our fiat!!! (sob!)



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?