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In this painting I wanted to show how absurd the wallstreet and banking sellout has become.  The abandonment of our industry in

exchange for money lending middlemen after a quick buck scam has been the death of our once great nation.  There is a reason history is full of nations and people who abhorred the ‘money lender’.  Given free reign by our government with promises of eternal growth and cradle to grave entitlements through financing.   This easy access to money that rewards greed and waste by passing traditional market forces that have money chasing tangible goods and resources we now have a Broken economy chasing financing opportunity based/counting on the ignorance of the investor.

“Psst I’ll sell you a bridge in Brooklyn”…”err I mean you want to invest in collateralized debt obligations” made up of bridges and moneys lent to states to build bridges… I mean that’s triple A baby.   States don’t go Bankrupt!”?.  Ya and the Internet bubble scam stocks were a sure thing  with catch words like “emerging markets”.  Laws from the first depression were to old fashioned for our so advanced society.

The lobbyist slop was dumped on the capitol for the pigs in washington to engorge on .  The once worshepd Allen Greenspan’s Fed dropped rates and the greediest and most unethical thrived on the flood of money real and made up.

The banks lent to any average Joe.. Why not the government guaranteed the sale with Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac.  Eagerly the Nation took hold of the dream   “Houses only go up”,…”best investment you can make”, “future nest egg”.  Small minded figured out “work is for suckers” and borrowd on a lie.  Dish washers were buying multiple houses.  While the ethical sure and steady ‘old’ American way of work hard and save for the future were punished.  A mini wallstreet mentality of fake it till you make it, Its all about me and the prophetic “I’m spending by kids inheritance” thrived.

Now that the quick buck has become entrenched at all levels of this nation.  The party’s over for the little guy and the elite are cashing out on there investments, lies, micro second credit scam gambling or the tried and true first depression feeding frenzy of gobbling the real assets (Gold, Multi generation family farm, industry you know like Budweiser etc) of the American middle class.  You know because like the first depression no ones (Bank) gonna give you money.  Welcome to the old worlds dream society of kings and serfs.

Those lucky enough to have been the cash under the mattress will loose value over time at such a breathtaking speed you are in effect forced to let wallstreet take there pound of flesh or uncle sam no matter same thing at this point.  Or the dumber of bunch that got lucky and are  Never able to figure out why they keep loosing to the middlemen or that monkey who throws darts at the stock Page of the Wallstreet Journal.

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In the Americas there was a time in the not so distant past when Catholics paid with there lives for there beliefs.  Father Miguel Pro (possibly soon to be Saint) was one such person.  His internal struggle with his beliefs  is one many of us can relate to.  A man of conviction in a age of doubt.  Like many Catholics of the time he had to make a life and death choice for or against his religion.

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This Painting I draw attention to the elite bankers and all that is wrong with perpetual debt and economic slavery represented by Ben Bernanke hanging from the Lamppost of Wallstreet and Broadway.   It is a battle of truth versus propaganda and diversions.  The unprecedented speed that our dear leaders in washington passed the “800 billion” dollar ransom to supposedly free the people of this land to once again eat drink and be economic merry was a lie and everyone in this country new it.  I would venture to say that even the most inept ‘representative’ in the house and senate deep in there little pig hearts felt the same.   It was clear that the fear of there masters far outweighed the people.  That was the time for us to leave the abusive relationship.  Only the people had the guts to say no to forced economic rape.

The ‘free market’ supposedly being saved was anything but free.  Today it cost this country it’s middle class and industry and you can bet tomorrow it will be austerity measures.   A fancy way of selling future generations to pimp daddy banksta.    Washington and wallstreet’s sellout was to be able to put the bankers boot on the neck of countries like India and china.  Why?  I will parrot the economist who in public are nothing more than equity coal stokers of this economic meltdown.  Encouraging and evangelizing that Americans throw there tangible goods in the global bankers investment funeral pyre.  Americans they say as a people in plain terms are taped out,  broke, spent goods a “bad credit risk”.  We were pimped out by tender lies and promises of the American dream for all investors.  The love affair of globalism was always going to be a one night stand.  I knew it when king bush the first blubbered about a new world order.  His thousand points of light were funeral pyres of American industry.

The number crunchers and graph makers in Washington keep working on new classifications of ‘factory job’s to offset that 30 year NAFTA sucking sound Ross Perot warned about.  You know the ones that all that wasted schooling and job training prepared you for.  Those coveted service jobs at McDonald’s and wallmart.  Or those who bought the propaganda to avoid the ever decreasing value of the dollar and were sure to lay there savings at the feet of the golden bull of wallstreet that government sanctioned and encouraged cesspool of con men and casino hustlers.   The big losers are the savers who face losing it all eventually to the bitch slap motivator of debt based economy’s … Inflation.

The new banker debt slave love affair was always going to be a one night stand for the middle class.  The clue was our default on a commodity backed currency (Gold) dumped under Nixon.  Spurred on By the French who had seen this love affair with bankers and debt before demanded gold not paper and ink.  The die was cast we were owned by elites whored out by a devil dressed as Dionysus.  ‘Eat drink and be merry Americans’ put all those marketing dreams on credit and paste that bumper sticker “I am spending my kids inheritance” with pride on that leased car… Boomers always enjoyed a good party.

Our nation was turned out on the worlds street corners.   Sleeping with whoever would join the free market party and bitch slapping those who wouldn’t.  The elite pimps used us to turn out new lovers in India and China.  Our betters whispered loving fantasy’s of non union markets and global profits to willing corporate ears.   This was only possible on the credit and industry of middle class America.  Elite pimps and washington whores shipped our industry overseas with a golden caged media singing songs of better tomorrows and easy living for toga wearing American brains standing on Asian brawn.

Glen Beck and and Rush Limbaugh are the blowout preventers of the right
By Kamalu

I tuned into beck a few times before the kids would get in the car on the way to school. His show is composed of talking about the media talking about him. He than would talk about the rally and desperately needing to sell more tickets as it was going to cost “him” a lot of money (6 million or so). You could tell he was worried as this seemed to be a reoccurring theme like a two-bit T.V. evangelist.

Years ago I think I caught his shtick in LA and it was a comedy show with fake callers and some good laughs. He then discovered his mushy support of republicans party politics. During the election he was constantly making fun of Ron Paul calling the same disenfranchised tea party folks kook’s with fake callers acting like buffoons screaming about the fed and fiscal responsibility. The bailout came rolling along and right on cue he was all for it… For the good of the country..

Now he is preaching vote republican and tea party’s days are done. These guys are nothing more than safety valves for the right. Keeping the same Ol’ crooks and divisions. He even boasted this rally would be the Ol’ soft shoe of gobbledygook and meaningless catch phrases asking people to hide under there bed and pray. He is no friend of the constitution or country… Sellouts never are.

In this Painting I wanted to capture my son at the moment he discovered a dead sting ray at the waters edge. It was an erie predawn morning and I could not get the image out of my head.   There was so much sadness calling out to us on that desolate beach.

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