A&E has a show called “Hoarders” about mentally sick people who live in filth and fill their homes with debris and anything they can find, but I think the network has missed the mark.
I wish they’d do a program on the real American Hoarders: our Banks and financial institutions.
I stand with the anti-Wall Street Protesters, who are coming to Phoenix next week, in abhording what’s happening in this nation as the financial world that was bailed out with billions in tax money now hoard their cash while the country falls apart.
They were allowed to take the money and run by the total lack of accountability that went with the original bailout under the George W. Bush administration. There’s a poignant moment at the very end of the excelled “Too Big to Fail” movie about that baillout, when the treasury secretary is warned that he should put strings on the money to make sure the banks use it to give loans to homeowners and businesses to get the economy back on track. He scoffs and says no strings are needed because of course, that’s what they’d do with the money.
That’s exactly what they didn’t do with the money.
I expected the Obama Administration to right that horrible wrong, but they didn’t. And so the economy continues to suffer; families continue to lose their homes; joblessness continues at record levels–and all the while, financial institutions are giving huge “bonuses” to the very people who screwed over America in the first place as they hoard piles of money.
The next time somebody tells you that government should be run like a business, I hope you know what a stupid fallacy that is, because in all this recession mess we’ve been living through for years now, we’ve seen how cruel, heartless, selfish and greedy American business can be.
Welcome to Phoenix, protesters!! And A&E, think about a new show.