[quote=CA renter]
Are you honestly going to tell me that we had a choice when all the bailouts (trillions of dollars, and we have yet to see all the damage!) were passed to protect — and grow! — the wealth of the robber barons who decimated our society?

No, we do not have a choice, and the elite are NOT held responsible for the damage they inflict on our society. [/quote]

Your complete and total abdication of any responsibility on the part of voters for all of this is stunning. Each and every citizen most certainly do have a choice, and it is called a vote. You are allowed to cast it every few years, and it is secret and totally your own.

Buisness can only buy politicans you elect. If we elect politicans who refuse to be bought, and toss out the ones who are bought, then buisness’s power is moot. However we, as a people, allow ourselves to buy into the lame labels and political brand names which are fundementally no different from one another. Last time I checked every bailout passed chambers controlled by both parties. Infact, the only chamber to ever say ‘no’ was the Republican led revolt in the house, and that lasted all of a few days until the Republican party leadership was able to scare the crap out of the people saying ‘no’ and change the votes.

Dont like the bailouts, the TARP, the housing bubble and the endless deficits? VOTE, and vote the people who vote FOR this crap out. That is your choice, and that is something that no buisness can take from you. No matter how much money they spend, no buiness in America today can take your vote from you. Sadly this is a choice we seem not to exercise very well/often. (tossing people out of office)