The real question is why is California being trashed when the banks that loaned the money, the lack of regulation that allowed the loans, and many of the investors who drove up housing prices were from out of state?

The banksters have already bled the rest of the country pretty easily. California, being a special case, with a much larger and more diverse economy than other states, requires special treatment and a more expansive program of bloodletting.

The global banking syndicate figures Californians have been overpaid tens of trillions over the years which by all rights should have gone to them, and not to Californians, one result of their inability to effectively reverse Roosevelt's economic reforms until the Shrub administration.

The top of the bankster class is really disgusted that CA has wasted so many billions on social services and health care for unproductive livestock in the human herds who should be culled as simple productivity maintenance. It's wasteful, and they're going to put a stop to it.

And they want those trillions back. And now that they're in charge again, they're getting them. With interest.

You probably think I'm kidding. Let me explain.

The last fifty years of middle-class prosperity (in the US and Europe, at least) has been an aberration of history, because all other human history has been characterized by a relatively small, wealthy ruling class dominating the rest of the population, virtually powerless and mostly poor.

Having lost much of its domination in the 1930's and 1940's, the wealthy and powerful have since then militated to reclaim their domination and are well on-course to succeed.

You're watching it happen.

“We disapprove of slavery and the cost of the maintenance and upkeep of slaves. We prefer our English model in which we control the issuance of currency, and control of money, it allows us to control labor without the cost of maintaining it.”

Lord Baron Rothschild (Private owner of the Bank of England. Quote 1849)

It's almost impossible to skirt the system ... rich people go to places like India to skirt the system

In other words, it's not "almost impossible" to skirt the system. Otherwise the illegal organ industry wouldn't be an industry.

Duh.

Your self-contradictions are all too easy to expose, wingnut. Salon's readership deserves a better class of liar than you. Tell Newt to have you replaced with a lying right-wing propagandist who's halfway competent, would you? There's a good boy.

US law doesn't apply in India.

And to your mind that makes the illegal organ industry okay with you, does it?

If you were wondering how we caught on that you were psychopathic so easily, maybe you should look up your court-appointed psychiatrist and have him explain the pathologies in your posts to you.

Despite your handle, you're not a "New Deal Democrat". You're a radical right-wing propagandist posing as a progressive as a ruse to give yourself an ersatz credibility for your neoconservative propaganda. Salon readers are mostly pretty sophisticated and aren't likely to be taken in by such a ruse for very long.

By the way.

Why is it that right-wingers have to pose as liberals in order to get traction for their propaganda? My guess is that the average American has come to find persons like yourself to be repulsive, so you have to seem to be something that you're not.

You're creepy, even by wacko wingnut standards, besides being a compulsive liar. Were you aware of that?

When did it first occur to you that you were psychopathic, neocon?

The rich pay less than their fair share

How do you think they got rich? Hint: maximize revenue, minimize costs. Works every time. CA has an inordinate number of hyperrich people not merely for the climate but because their minions have successfully rigged the tax system for them. They enjoy a number of such favored locations around the world.

Wealthy people with incomes a thousand times more than average believe they're worth it because they're a thousand times better than average. You'd be amazed at how many of them really think like that and actually regard themselves as a higher species, not subject to mere human laws or morals. Those are for the worker classes, who naturally exist for the purpose of serving them.

Lots of them don't even pretend to have "jobs" because they have thousands of head of livestock, that is, other people, who make money for them, so they don't have to. The sense of personal entitlement is often quite absolute. Of course, after the first few hundred million it's not about the money at all, because they have more than they can waste properly. After a point, it's all about competition with other wealthy persons: the guy with a mere five hundred million is made to feel socially inferior to the billionaire, and often develops a desperate psychological need to rob the system to get more. An industry has been well-established for years to serve such people, with branches in CA for the convenience of much of their clientele.

You'd be shocked to know just how far it goes, which is why you rarely see it in print. These are, after all, the people who create the demand for the illegal body parts industry and the super-high-end spa industry, and you'll never see the real story on those in print.

Note to Salon readers: It is not the rich people that are screwing up California.

Translation: "We've been getting away with it for decades. Suckers!"

The usual excellent research by scorp. Looks ugly, doesn't it? You'd think folks would wake up and get more than a bit huffy and do something about it, but instead most people are taking it laying down. Something to do with cultural hypnosis, it seems.

Thanks again.