“About the only difference between slavery at Pullman and what it was down South before the war, is that there the owners took care of the slaves when they were sick and here they don’t.”
— worker to a reporter for the Chicago Herald, 31 May 1890

Sing ho, for we know you, Carnegie;
God help us and save us, we know you too well;
You’re crushing our wives and you’re starving our babies;
In our homes you have driven the shadow of hell.
Then bow, bow down to Carnegie,
Ye men who are slaves to his veriest whim;
If he lowers your wages cheer, vassals, then cheer.
Ye
Are nothing but chattels and slaves under him.
– 2nd verse, “A Man Named Carnegie,” anonymous, California, 7 July 1892

There are many approaches to take to that first toke.

Jamie Dimon, one of the guys saved by the bailout, rescue, whatever. Jamie Dimon, one of the key players in the US induced Capital Collapse, blames Fannie & Freddie, not his own JP Morgan for the Wall Street bonfire. He calls them “the biggest disasters of all time.” Even bigger, I suppose, than 9/11, or Katrina. Anyhow, he now has his bonus, his bailout, and his skapegoat.

This is an example of why the only solution to smoking, or perhaps Money Addiction, is to let them smoke cigars until they cough blood. The bailout wasn’t only too finely focused, it came too soon. Perhaps we should have looked elsewhere and not followed the Bush direction. We should have clear cut Wall Street. Perhaps allowed a pit fight, in which the Cowards Of Capital would fight for not just their last breath, but for every breath. Make em fight till they bleed. We rescued the wrong people.

Next time lets do better, let these pit bosses die.