Bankrupt Economy: Living in the Red (White and Blue)

Greedy financial firms are responsible for one financial crisis after another. And every time their bubbles pop, our political leaders are all too willing to bail them out with taxpayer money. Meanwhile, one company after another chases cheaper labor overseas, yet politicians in Washington do nothing as good paying jobs vanish and average workers' wages drop. Instead, they dupe us with skewed statistics and urge us to spend beyond our means. That way they can keep the sick cycle of our consumer economy spinning.
From 99 Reasons To Be Mad as Hell:
- Reason #41: The Declaration of Corporate Independence
- Reason #42: China and the Myth of Free Trade
- Reason #43: Dying for Chinese Junk
- Reason #44: How Can A World Leader Be Dependent on Foreign Manufacturing?!
- Reason #45: Outsourced and Overspent
- Reason #46: The Widening Trade Deficit
- Reason #47: GDP - Our Gross Disgusting Product
- Reason #48: The Sick Cycle of Consumerism
- Reason #49: Soaking the Poor
- Reason #50: The Uncrackable Tax Code
- Reason #51: Lies, Damn Lies, and Government Statistics
- Reason #52: The CPI and the Myth of Low Inflation
- Reason #53: Phony Unemployment Figures
- Reason #54: The Wall Street Propaganda Mill - Fleecing us with Lies
- Reason #55: Home Inequity - Wall Street's Subprime Madness
- Reason #56: The Dollar and the Real Rate of Inflation
- Reason #57: Paving Wall Street with Taxpayer Gold
- Reason #58: The Corporate Pension Scam
- Reason #59: Over a Barrel
- Reason #60: Hedge Fund Madness
- Reason #61: Derivatives - Playing Fast and Loose with House Money
- Reason #62: Leveraging our Economic Future
- Reason #63: Turn Out the Lights, The Party's Over (And the Taxpayers Have to Clean Up the Mess)
- Reason #64: Home Sour Loan
- Reason #65: Don't Pay 'Til You Graduate
- Reason #66: The FDIC and the Myth of Insured Money
- Reason #67: This Didn't Have to Happen!

