We have become a nation enslaved by banks, health insurance companies, gas companies and many smaller companies whose profits are taken from the sweat of our brows.

They put all their cards in massive government spending and now we have a 1.85 trillion dollar deficit and nothing to show for it.

Warren is right.  The justification Bush used to pass TARP and then Obama to pass the stimulus has actually happened, so now what.

We've averaged over 500,000 job losses per month over the last four months.

1 Trillion in 8 months.

Throughout history, whenever a national calamity (war, coup d'état, insurrection, etc.) has taken place, whom do the ruling Oligarchs save first ?; themselves, and their families, of course. "Women and children first!" "The captain goes down with his ship!" Those quotes may make for nice fairytales, but of course, they're just fairytales.

Does anyone really believe that the architects (conspirators) better known as the banks and your Government, didn't see this calamity coming? These people, who hold all the power, are privy to all the information, and who designed and enriched themselves from this system, just woke up one day and said, Oops?

No, my guess is that something like this took place: Paulsen arranged for a conference call with Bush, Obama, their senior economic teams, the heads of the major banks & financial institutions, and certain Congressional leaders. The gist of the conversation went something like this: "Well guys, we knew this day was coming sooner or later; that day has come, and it's today. We can do one of two things. We can spell it all out to the American people, ask for some time to work it out, and hope there isn't a spontaneous national explosion of rage. Of course, the damage will be so great that the ultimate outcome is completely unknowable and dangerously unpredictable. Or we can, while we still hold power, grab every last dime we can get our hands on, so that when the public wises up and finds out what we've done, we'll be firmly secure and protected in whatever private utopia we've set up for ourselves around the globe.

Crazy? No, I Think it's exactly what happened, and it's exactly what's going on right now, right under our noses. Why else would Obama, who promised "change," hire Geithner and Summers, arguably the two people most responsible for this disastrous scheme, to head up his economic team? Who, better than these two, know where the "bodies are buried?"

And, that's why "The Masters" needed the "right" President, and why everyone who gorged and enriched themselves at the public's trough locked elbows in search of the "right guy." So when Obama said, "I'm the guy you've all been waiting for," the rest was "nuthin but net."