I’d like to think my blog was enough of a threat to Wall Street to pull YouTube clips off the Internet – but this afternoon INSIDE JOB was gone. SONY PICTURES pulled the clips off of the Internet.
It’s a great documentary – if you can find a copy buy it, rent it share it with your friends. Everyone should know what happened to our economy. We cannot ignore it because it’s not going away or getting better any time soon.
‘Inside Job’ is the first film to provide a comprehensive analysis of the global financial crisis of 2008, which at a cost over $140 trillion, caused millions of people to lose their jobs and homes in the worst recession since the Great Depression, and nearly resulted in a global financial collapse. Continue reading

Last night, President Obama agreed to a deal with top Republicans that is widely seen as a big victory for the Tea Party.


s House and Senate leaders fine-tuned rival deficit reduction plans on Wednesday, Sen. Bernie Sanders spoke on the Senate floor about the public’s strong belief that additional revenue from the wealthy should be part of any package to reduce red ink. He cited a new Washington Post poll that found 72 percent favor raising taxes on those who make more than $250,000 year. Despite those overwhelming numbers, he said, “We are marching down a path which will do exactly opposite of what the American people want.” He called Republican opposition to more revenue “fanatical.” He also faulted President Obama for a bargaining strategy that sugars down to this: “Retreat after retreat after retreat.” Of the competing House and Senate proposals Sanders bluntly concluded that one is bad and the other is much worse. He shared his assessment with 
