Let’s see if I have this straight. If you rob a bank, you go to jail. There really is little discussion about that fact. It is usually non-negotiable. Rob a bank, get caught, go to jail. This happens even if you are robbing the bank to pay for your child’s medical needs, your wife’s surgery, to put food on the table or, simply because you are greedy and want more money. Even if you don’t hurt anyone in the robbery, even if the bank is FDIC insured so no customers will lose money… even if all that is true, you still go to jail.
But let’s see what happens when the bank robs you. Oh, I see. You don’t go to jail. You don’t get charged with a crime. You get to go home and collect a retirement package that is more than the money 5000 of your (now former) employees stole from your customers because you said they needed to make more money for the bank. Even with the Board “clawing back” $48,000,000 you still end up with more money than all the people you ripped off combined.
You wonder why people in this country think the odds are stacked against then? You wonder why the middle class is disappearing? You wonder why you are working harder to get ahead while seeming to fall behind? Ask the head of Wells Fargo. I think you’ll find your missing money in his bank account.
Can the revolution be far away?