"There must be some way out of here" said the joker to the thief
"There's too much confusion", I can't get no relief
Businessmen, they drink my wine, plowmen dig my earth
None of them along the line know what any of it is worth.

"No reason to get excited", the thief he kindly spoke
"There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke
But you and I, we've been through that, and this is not our fate
So let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late".

All along the watchtower, princes kept the view
While all the women came and went, barefoot servants, too.

Outside in the distance a wildcat did growl
Two riders were approaching, the wind began to howl.

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Welfare Moms vs Big Banks

Recently I received from a dear friend a long racially charged “joke” regarding Black welfare moms. I believe she is being misguided by those who would turn our eyes away from the real parasites of our society. I am talking about the giant financial institutions that control “free” markets and produce nothing.

I have worked very hard all my life and agree that people should be productive members of society as part of the contract that allows them to partake in the collective benefits of the society. However, these welfare mother stories are a ruse that covers up the real problems in this country. Did you know that the original welfare queen that Ronald Reagan used in his election campaign was made up? No such person existed? Click here for more about welfare queen story.

To find the real parasites who steal from the common wealth we need to look elsewhere. Giant financial institutions that produce nothing have stolen trillions of dollars from our economy. People were aghast that 700 billion dollars ($700,000,000) of taxpayer's money was given to the banks and other financial institutions after they criminally mismanaged their businesses before the 2008 collapse. It turns out that the actual amount of money the Federal Reserve Bank distributed to the Big Banks after the financial collapse included another 7.7 trillion dollars! Click here for more about corporate bailout. This figure is not disputed by anyone. That's $7,700,000,000,000 of the people's money that the government gave to the criminals who ran these collapsed banks. That is over $28,000 for every man, woman, and child in this country. How many people are in your family?

And do you know why the big banks collapsed? The people who ran these institutions created hundreds of billions of dollars of mortgages they knew could not be paid back. They then sold these mortgages that they knew would go bad to pension funds, municipalities and companies. To make it worse, they bet, yes they bet, hundreds of billions of dollars that these mortgages would fail. Do you hear what I am saying? They sold hundreds of billions of dollars of rotten eggs to their customers and then took out huge bets that they would start smelling. When the whole thing came down like a house of cards their companies were bailed out by the government with taxpayer's money and they then gave themselves billions of dollars of bonuses.

The real scourge of our society is not promiscuous black woman. The real scourage in black communities, such as in Chicago, is an unemployment rate of almost 17%. It is is almost 19% for men. Click here for more on Chicago Black unemployment rate. The rates are probably understated. You can imagine the kind of stress that puts on a community when one of five men doesn't have a job. So while trillions of dollars of taxpayer money is given to big U.S. Banks who do things with it like fund the purchase of Chinese banks, $87,000 office carpets , private jets and individual multi-million dollar bonuses , there is no money to employ people who desperately need work. Parties who are funded by these big banks are more than happy to see racially charged jokes and stories like this which help keep the collective mind off the real crimes that are going on in this country. Let's make jokes about the desperate people who were screwed over.

Nobody seriously argues the objective truth regarding bailouts. These criminal bailouts were simply rationalized by saying that the economy would have collapsed if these banker crooks were not paid off for what they stole and then lost. I don't believe that. The money could have gone to create jobs. A fraction of what was spent would have been all that was needed to get the economy back to health.

What's the best way to rob a bank? Answer: Own one.