US ECONOMIC SYSTEM MAKES MOCKERY OF NATION - HESSELL

Bill Hessell shared your blog post on Google+ Martin Scorsese and the star of his latest movie, The Wolf of Wall Street, Leonardo DiCaprio, back up the same points that Dean Baker makes in this article, that the economic system of the US has become corrupted by a growing addiction to excess, wealth, and self-serving, fraudulent greed that the governmental and financial system not only tolerates but even at times encourages. DiCaprio states the charge as well as it can be expressed, "what is going on? How can so many people be robbing us blind and how can they not only get away with it, but how do they get bonuses afterward?". That says it all. Our growing wealth inequality is bad enough, but that it is being so openly accepted and prompted by our existing economic system is making a mockery of all our nation is meant to value. PLENTY OF ECONOMISTS WILLING TO BECOME WHORES View activity