Occupy Wallshington v2.0

Apparently Wall Street's Tokyo Rose and other apologist haven't gotten the message yet.  They still think that OWS is unclear on its goals.

While I am not an official member of Occupy Wall Street, using basic principles of commonsense and decency it's not hard to come up with a relatively immutable set of reforms that need to be considered.

And as you can guess from the title it's not just Wall Street that will be "a-Changin'":

1) Reinstate the Glass-Steagall law which was implemented during the 1930s and strictly separated banking from speculation.  It worked just fine for over 60 years.

2) Implement a Flat Tax of 30% on income above $150k.  Honest people already pay that amount anyway

3) End the IRS Offshore Tax Amnesty Program.  All offshore bank account holders should be given 90 days to move the money back to the U.S. paying all past due taxes and penalties, or lose citizenship.

4) Fire Ben Bernanke.  Central Banksters need to learn that the money supply is not Wall Street's candy store.  Given that we just came through the worst financial crisis in 60 years, one would have thought that they would realize that inventing clever new ways to give speculators more leverage, is a bad idea.

5) Implement true campaign finance reform and eliminate the SuperPac idiocy.  This may require a constitutional amendment, since the Supreme Court just proved that it's now part of the (political) problem as well.

6) Force the Government to adopt the findings of its own bipartisan deficit commission (which it hasn't).

7) No more bailouts.  If speculators and banksters take risk then they need to deal with the consequences.  

8) Impose a 30% immediate tariff on China and other export mercantilist countries e.g. those countries that have no environmental or labor protections.  As I have said before, a nation that trades openly with other nations which have no environmental or labor protections, will itself end up with no protections i.e. through industrial arbitrage.  

Those are just a few basic common sense policies, which if adopted would start moving the U.S. back to being a real country again, rather than the latent special-interest-group controlled clusterfuck that it has become.

I have no doubt that all of the above policies will eventually be implemented, because they make too much obvious sense.  It's just a question of how long it takes and how bad things have to become before we get there...

One (last) Degree to South Park

The Idiocracy has its own 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon - it's the one degree to South Park game.  Every topic of any consequence or gravity boiled down to a crass South Park episode.  All of history reduced to a cartoon and spoon fed to the Idiocracy so they know their exact glib lines when someone inconveniently changes the subject to reality.  Irrefutable proof of the nihilism and cynicism pervasive in this transitory and totally fucked up age.  The Unbearable (and yet all-too-fleeting) Lightness of Being for a generation of spoiled Westerners who desperately assume others in the Third World can die needlessly every day by the thousands for a want of a few dollars of food or medicine, but it can't happen here.

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A massive Tsunami looms on the horizon, bearing down relentlessly.  A few lonely discarded voices warn from the high ground - we lonely and pathetic cassandras and pessimists, buzz-kills, really.  

See the beach dwellers -  fully ensconced, like shiny beached whales, sur la plage.  What is that in the distance anyway?  Is that a massive wave?  "...let's surf - I'm not afraid to surf this place - we'll surf this whole fucking place !" 

Occupy Wall Street?  What do those loser bums want anyway?  Fuck all of them.  Don't they know there is a new episode of Dancing with the Lost Star of the Modern American Breaking Bad Family Idol?  

I am sure those doughnut plugged 50-something cops getting-ready-to-retire will take care of those hippies and their PTSD soldier buddies.  What?  Another 50,000 20-somethings coming back from Iraq ?  Time to dial up a new war up in here.  

9 Large Pizzas with 9 Toppings for $9 dollars !  Vote for me.  I can fix all of this...