The Big Banks are Terrified – We are Winning

We have had enough – and we’re not going to take it any more. It is up to us to go back on November 7th, and November 8th and every day after that. Already, Move Your Money on Nov 5th, has morphed into Move Your Money Mondays. It is a terrifying prospect for the banks. They will tell you that all of this doesn’t matter. After all, they don’t need no stinking customers. They are sitting on an unprecedented mountain of cash. They don’t make money off deposits. This can’t hurt them, this won’t hurt them. They are lying:
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Saving capitalism? The price could be democracy

Right now everyone seems to be getting terribly excited about saving capitalism. Which is fair enough, in the face of global meltdown. However, it seems to me that the price of saving capitalism is increasingly likely to be “democracy”. Which would be a shame as I’m a big fan of democracy. On the whole, I think it’s a good thing.
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What’s God got to do with it?

He may be invoked in the national motto, but God has nothing to do with why Americans are free and secure. . . The House voted 396-9 this week to reaffirm as the national motto the phrase “In God We Trust” and encouraged its pronouncement on public buildings and continued printing on the coin of the realm. The motto was made official in 1956 during the height of Cold War hysteria over godless communism and — in the words of Brig. Gen. Jack D. Ripper in “Dr. Strangelove” — “Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.”
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