Sometimes you don't find out who your friends are until the bear in the woods hits the Pope's fan.
In the last year We, the People have been finding out who our friends are and aren't. (Actually mostly just aren't.) We especially have been finding out what the priorities are and where the power lies. And lies and lies.
Since the financial crisis began we have been seeing as clear a display of raw power being used against the interests of the people as I imagine can be seen. We were given hours to put up all of the money we have to bail out a few large financial institutions because they were "too big to fail," but we did nothing about how big they were -- and still are! We allowed the use of our tax money to pay incredibly fat paychecks and bonuses while more and more of the rest of us have been laid off, lost our retirement, houses, etc. We complained about the use in these bailed out companies of private jets by a select few and their families because it "looked bad" but not because of what it was. Who is this "we" anyway? I didn't want those things to happen, but "we" let them happen.
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