Big Banks Ramp Up The Fees (Quietly)

http://www.tulsaworld.com/business/article.aspx?subjectid=49&articleid=20120304_51_E3_CUTLIN987069

Gotta move your money people...

The NexGen FAA Aircraft Fiasco

http://www.faa.gov/news/press_releases/news_story.cfm?newsId=12358

So two companies joined to form ACSS, the "leader" of this plot. Firstly, Thales Group, a top 10 Defence contractor based in France, and known for corrution/bribery.

Secondly, L3 Board includes a former Deputy Director of OMB under Jimmy Carter and a senior Defence advisor to Bill Clinton. Shocker. Paybacks...
They also stink of Lockheed Martin and Lehman Brothers. A virtual cesspool.

I guess my biggest bitch is tossing millions of dollars to these assholes who pay no taxes, in what ammounts to a no-bid contract. Something I thought was illegal.

The Cost Of Congress (UP UP UP!)

http://www.cncnews.org/news/congress-operating-costs-skyrocket

Some highlights;

- Senators and representatives’ salaries and benefits: $126 million, up 23.5 percent.
(I would take just a 5% increase, but like most midlle class, I have been losing ground since 2000)

- Expense allowances for Senate leaders: $180,000, up 99 percent since 2000.

- Senate officers: $178.98 million, up 99 percent.

- House leadership offices: $25.88 million, up 82 percent.

- Other House officers: $198.30 million, up 120 percent.

- Senators’ personal offices: $422 million, up 75 percent.

- House members’ personal offices: $660 million, up 62 percent.

- Architect of the Capitol salaries: $106.78 million, up 118 percent.

- Capitol Police salaries: $265.18 million, up 237 percent.

- Capitol Police general expenses: $63.13 million, up 860 percent.

Show Me The Money

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7854915.stm

I wonder if any of the assholes that have ripped off America (and the rest of the world) in the process of triple packaging bad loans and trading them down (making billions in the process) feel at all bad about stuff like this? At all?

They won't read this, they did the same thing Bernie Madoff tried to do, send the assets away for safe keeping. I don't know about you, but my jeans have a big red spot where my ass is, and I am not on my period. Welcome to unregulated democracy!