If this is really true, the speculators need to be thrown UNDER the jail and their families put into debtors’ prison.
This profiteering is not just fattening their wallets using our money — which is bad enough and worthy of harsh punishment. It’s emboldening and enriching the people that would kill us. And that my friends is treason.
These speculators include fund managers for large unions and government agencies. Basically the derivative investors that lost their shirts during the Sub Prime crash. We are talking about the complete failure of the National US financial system and our National government. The House of Cards is very shaky right now. We all knew The People would end up bailing these 'investors out'. We just perhaps did not know how.
This profiteering is not just fattening their wallets using our money — which is bad enough and worthy of harsh punishment. It’s emboldening and enriching the people that would kill us. And that my friends is treason.
The demand is dropping as people stop driving and companies fold. Their profits may not even be an issue here, but I am just speculating. Perhaps this is how we get cooperation to neutralize the Iranian threat ? Who knows.