If the financial sector can be rigged to steal on such a large scale, why can't

[Skidmore]

it be used to keep the economy weak so that an election can be fixed to get more sympathetic forces in power? We keep hearing that investments in the economy are not being made and that banks are dragging their feet. Well, can you think of a better way to get the Rs back and free access to the feeding trough?

[Birthmark]

1. They wouldn't do that

That would be naughty. :sarcasm:

[dipsydoodle]

2. Such malarkies

would be difficult to predict the outcome of and hence control so I don't think that such tactics would be used maliciously.

But then again who knows. :shrug:

[Skidmore]

4. We didn't think a national election could be stolen either.

I don't see why it couldn't happen. If the majority of wealth is held by a small group of people and the rest of us forced to invest in this system have been reduced to near penury, it would seem to me to be more likely that these people would be willing to roll snake eyes for a while until it is an opportune time to cash in for the big one.

[Chemical Bill]

3. Yeah but....

President Obama has treated the financial sector almost as if the jackals that killed Allende for ITT operate in the US as well.

Bill