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SteelHands · 61-69, M
The future will note: The final years of 20th century anti-trust, anti monopoly, pro citizenry legislation that added on labor protections, securities and exchange rules, banking and finance regulation was being dismantled. This became a cause celebré for all political scheming. Incoming elected officials routinely became 8 figure millionaires. Appointed agency heads being granted lucrative jobs at the very companies they regulated after someone new was appointed in their job.
The public reacted with grass roots activism such as the well known occupy wall street protests, led by people such as Andrew Brietbart, suddenly dying from heart failure in their 40s. Bank failures were mirrored by large swaths of urban high risk issued mortgages classified as moderate or low risk, failing by the millions. Bank insolvency and protest stories were sneakily replaced with government bail out stories, banking bonus payout stories, and school shootings until a black president promised to change things.
Nothing changed but the stories in the news. Suddenly it was 1967 all over again. Race protests, gay protests, war protests, political extremists and pro war profiteers were acting as if none of the robbery ever happened.
The public reacted with grass roots activism such as the well known occupy wall street protests, led by people such as Andrew Brietbart, suddenly dying from heart failure in their 40s. Bank failures were mirrored by large swaths of urban high risk issued mortgages classified as moderate or low risk, failing by the millions. Bank insolvency and protest stories were sneakily replaced with government bail out stories, banking bonus payout stories, and school shootings until a black president promised to change things.
Nothing changed but the stories in the news. Suddenly it was 1967 all over again. Race protests, gay protests, war protests, political extremists and pro war profiteers were acting as if none of the robbery ever happened.