is sacking the bank vaults for his cronies.  What sort of action are our leaders willing to take to stop the rampant piracy that's stealing us all blind?  What does it take for them to acknowledge we are under financial and economic siege?

Whoa...too rich or big 'to be allowed fail' in what is supposed to be a 'free market'? See, there's a major clue. So it's 'a level playing field' for the market when the field angle is reset to allow as much available cash, even hundreds of billions, trillions even, are borrowed from our futures and personal wealth, to be funneled into crony hands as massive present value gains.

This is beyond corporate welfare, it's more than crony welfare, it's reverse transfer, i.e. theft, piracy and plunder of the treasuries of multiple nations and 99% of the people, by the top 1%.

It would appear when our 'biggest fans of the free market' Republicans were given free reign to enter our treasuries, and they brought their leaf blowers and supervacs along to make sure the to clean out the rest of our 99% class.  Reverse Robin Hood ethics hard at work.  This 1% seems to have adopted the pirate's ethic of "Take all ye can, and give nothin' back!" and they're over 3/4's done with 300 days to go.

My modest stack of $USD dollar bills barely buys 1/4th of gold and oil it did at the time W was elected.  Think about this...it takes only 1/4 as much gold to equal the value of our homes as it did 8 years ago, for those among us who still have them.

Instead of our pension stocks and housing values also going up 4X, these seem to be teetering or already sliding at alarming rates.  Who benefits from that kind of leverage?  Jobs, salaries and benefits are noticably thinner now than 8 years ago. Where is W's deep concern and actions to restore the tremendous value stolen from the 99% of citizens?

The top 1% apparently have taken greater percentages of control of real assets and have magnified their net worth by factors, while 99% of us have seen it taken away, they're up 300%, we're holding 25% of what we had.  

This is far worse than a home invasion or burglery, and yet we just tolerate it, numb, unbelieving, hoping for things to change.

It's hard to ignore the signs of depression written on the bank vault walls, along the streets in the tracts of housing for which no buyers can be found, and whatever savings you had in IRA or pension accounts, etc. being worth 1/4th of what it was 8 years ago.  We've by the hundreds of millions been nearly cleaned out.  And there's a few thousand uber-rich trying very hard to avoid being detected as the ones whose vaults are 300% fuller now.  

Is it possible Ms. Pilosi is one of that priviledged top %1 who prefers that we not notice?  Wait, wait, wait...we've got a blue-light special $600 check coming, again borrowed from our futures, but is it enough to keep the masses placated?  What if the masses start to do the math?

Ewww.

were President now.  The same thing would have happened with Bear Sterns.  A violent failure of the institution would do more harm than good, which is why the Fed and JP Morgan stepped in to make sure they could at least liquidate the company in an orderly fashion.  It would be nice if we had people who actually presented a balanced case on economics/finance around here, instead of just playing to the popular notions of the people on DKos.  

We want - we need the market to fear the consequences of taking stupid risks.  How is that hard to understand?

Why didn't you invest all your money in Bear Sterns then, since it's so obvious they end up with billions.  I suppose the 47% loss you suffered today wouldn't really be a loss.  I guess if you end up with 10 cents on the dollar for your investment you'd feel that was a great success, right?