by Christine D. Patterson

Created on: November 21, 2010   Last Updated: November 22, 2010

If one were to step back into time for a minute, we would see that the bailout program is a complete joke. No one benefited from it except Wall Street and the Banks. Now the money was suppose to help "banks that were to big to fail."  In the beginning they were not failing at all, it was a complete scam that former President Bush told America. "We the People" bought the snake oil.

Wall Street got richer and the Banks began to horde money and the people have gotten poorer. Billions were suppose to help homeowners stay in their homes. But they companies only took the money to fight the homeowners in court, most have not even paid a dime back to the tax payers. AIG took vacations, went to a spa retreat and did other things that in front of the American people they were above the law. Now with the truth coming out about the housing crisis, the Banks are waving the flags of "we did not know about it."

Many have lost jobs that should have stayed in America. Homes by the millions sit block by block in every neighborhood in America. Families are out in the streets with no where to go, and now Apartment  Landlords are finding new ways to raise rent behind the fact there is not enough Apartments now. The sad fact is, we are still handing out money like it is free candy. While the middle class is alarmingly disappearing. "We the people" have been blamed for most of Wall Streets and the Banks mess. Our government claims we were not living within our means? Our President says we have to sacrifice? America would love to know right now how much more do we have to sacrifice? Why not tell the Banks to start paying the money back the government gave them.

Sacrifice does not mean that "we the people" keep loosing everything we own and the rich keep getting richer over our labor. No one is hearing the cries of the people anymore. White collar crime is the new norm now because you can get away with financial murder and no one will bat an eye at you ( less you happen to be poor). We have not even began to see the scope of what is about to happen here in America. So we just say: "who cares; it does not effect me" and keep printing money that we don't have?

How much longer are we going to keep selling our future off to the devil?

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