Wanted One Really Honest Man

Or Who Will Rid Us of the Troublesome High Priests of Finance

You have met the hero in a thousand stories in your lifetime. A guy who is too honest to be compelled by money or power to join the looting and steal their own children’s future. A guy with the clarity of mind to see the truth about human beings and the strength of character to live with it. Or, if you are so inclined, you can find a girl with the same characteristics. Too bad, they all seem to be in fictional stories.

Some moments and crimes in our history stand out. They cry out for expiation. I know we are all supposed to allow the system of justice to take care of that job. But sometimes it just takes a single guy with a conscience, a bottle and a gat to clear the table.

Why are the thieves still walking around like the rest of us? I know a lot of perfectly honest people have done some dishonest things in the recent past. People lied to get liars loans. People exaggerated their asset’s value, and got paid a higher price than their house was worth. Lots of people did lots and lots of less than honest things to create this mess.

Blame it on the market, or the bubble, or the way people got paid huge money for living a lie. But do not dare to name the few who really are to blame; never, never, never, blame the guys who set up the Kool-Aid stand in the first place. The system may suck, but someone set it up to benefit the crowd they grew up with in all of those nice schools.

It wasn’t Christ or Gandhi who put this banking system in place. All of the inappropriate intermediation was set up to benefit the banking classes. It is mandated by laws that keep us going back to the Countrywide’s and the CITI’s and the B of A’s for a loan. The money changers now own the temple and will let us worship there if we pay them enough to get in there in the first place.

First they destroyed the smaller local savings and loans that competed with the big centralized model of banking. It was those same, locally owned, savings and loans that we used to rebuild banking after the last depression.

That happened in the eighties while the rest of us were resting from Vietnam. Now the banking power of this economy is so concentrated that we have to save their company’s assets in order to have the banking function available.

AIG was a corrupt corporate culture before they sold insurance on loans that they had no way of covering. The derivatives market was phony from the word go. No bank or insurance company had the financial ability to cover all of those bets, only the taxpayer could pony up with that much gelt.

So every future taxpayer now owes tens of thousands of dollars used to cover these bets. And Cui Bono? Who Benefits? The same damn thieves who invented that arcane crap in the first place. They all get to keep their ill gotten gains.

So I ask again, who will rid us of these corrupt high priests of finance, and the answer? The answer my friend is blown in the wind. Sadly enough it ain’t the wind of change blowing through Gotham City or even Washington. It is just the same old smelly breeze filled with effluence and disease that these bastards use to propel their yachts, which they bought with our money