Michael Moore: Once Wall Street Saw They Could Get Away With The 2008 Collapse...

I have said for a long time now that when the Obama administration DELIBERATELY shied away from holding ANYBODY in finance or on Wall Street accountable for the financial collapse they created in 2007-2008, they were laying the groundwork for continued looting of the country by the banking and corporate criminal class.

So far, few on the left seem willing to tie Obama to what has happened in Wisconsin, Ohio, Idaho and elsewhere as the corporate oligarchs put the finishing nails into the coffins of working and middle class.

But Michael Moore has:

Once the Republicans and the corporate power structure saw that they could get away with the looting of the federal Treasury and taking millions of homes from people, they got away with that, and there was no revolt, there was no uprising, there was nothing. And Obama comes in there, and he appoints one of them as our Treasury secretary. Nothing, silence. Well, if you were a big shot on Wall Street, Amy, and you saw that—"Oh, my god! We just like got billions of bailout money. We now are getting the Fed to print what will eventually be trillions for us. We’ve thrown a million families out on the curb, foreclosing on them. And they just don’t do anything. They don’t do anything"—as with any criminal, what does that tell the criminal, if the criminal is not stopped, caught, punished for the crime that they’ve committed? They will keep committing the crime.

Indeed, they will.

And that's exactly what they have been doing these past two years.

Now Obama is NEVER going to take these people on,

He's too busy raising money for re-election from corporate types and listening to his new chief of staff, former JP Morgan Chase exec William Daley, to do that.

So working and middle class people are going to have to do it themselves.

And they're going to have to find ways to BACK the politicians who have backed them up while punishing the ones who haven't.

Today, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said the problem in Wisconsin is that everybody needs to sacrifice but GOPers only want working and middle class people to sacrifice.

No, Jay, that ISN'T the problem.

The problem is the income disparity in this nation that has the richest 400 people in the country owning more wealth than the bottom 150 million.

That's the problem.

Until that problem is rectified, these people are going to grab more and more power and more and wealth.

As School Matters pointed out today, Gates is grabbing more and more power in education by using his wealth to promote his privatization agenda.

You know, we could solve two problems with one stone by hitting Bill Gates with a righteous, Reagan-Era tax bill instead of letting him outsource his company to tax havens like the Caymans and Ireland, make him pay billions more in tax revenue AND force him to spend less on education reform.

It's a win-win for the country AND the kids.

And of course Obama will NEVER do it.

He's too busy touring charter schools with Melinda Gates and talking about market-based reforms to do what's right.

Please, folks, remember that come 2012.

Politicians only do what you want WHEN YOU MAKE THEM.

So let's make Obama stand up for the working and middle class people he said he would stand up for back in 2008.