Wall Street has turned the economy into a giant asset-stripping scheme, one whose purpose is to suck the last bits of meat from the carcass of the middle class.
Matt TaibbiOur leaders know weโre turning into a giant ghetto and they are taking every last hubcap they can get their hands on before the rest of us wake up and realize whatโs happened.
Matt TaibbiUnquestionably, however, something else is at work, something that cuts deeper into the American psyche. We have a profound hatred of the weak and the poor, and a corresponding groveling terror before the rich and successful, and we're building a bureaucracy to match those feelings.
Matt Taibbi