I meet people all of the time who swear that if they had been alive in Nazi Germany, what courageous things they would have done.

Or Stalinist Russia. Or during the underground railroad for slaves.

But now, when they have a chance to help America and add their voice to the protest of what is the raping and looting of our treasury and the wallstreet old-boy network of Government workers [Hank Paulson, Robert Rubin, Obama's latest Goldman-Sachs lobbyists who are now running our treasury] taking billions and billions of hard-working taxpayer dollars and handing it to their buddies who lost billions and billions in their own little ponzi schemes and pursuit of obscene short-term profits, the sound of silence is deafening.

Why is Matt Taibbi the only journalist out there exposing what our government and Goldman-Sachs are doing to our quality of life now and our future? Why are you all purposefully asleep?

Matt wrote his blog on July 16th exposing what Goldman's giant profits really mean. Not what they say they mean. Or Obama says they mean. Or Bernake says they mean. Robert Reich on front page Salon tried to say the same thing but he is so in bed with all the dirty politicians, he can't really speak the truth.

What Matt said in his latest blog and you can go read it yourself is:

• Goldman's "profit" in not a profit at all but almost pure state subsidy. It's our money, transfered into Goldman's accounts, to pay more bonuses to the people who brought us this economic meltdown.
• Hank Paulson who got bazillions of our dollars for TARP on the premise that once rescued, Wall Street would pump money back into the economy was lying. The banks have simply hoarded it and "ate it on the spot", converting it into bonuses.
• This is the final evidence that the bailouts were a political decision to use the power of the state to redirect society's resources upward, on a grand scale.
• "It was a selective rescue of a small group of chortling jerks who must be laughing all the way to the Hamptons every weekend about how they fleeced all of us at the very moment the game should have been up for all of them."
  
  • Where is the outrage, people? What is wrong with you?
• Ask yourself this question: has borrowing money gotten any cheaper for you this year? Did someone from the government walk up to you after you foreclosed on your house or missed a payment on your credit card and just as a favor, cuz you're so cool, jack your credit score back up to the 99th percentile and invite you to start all over again? Because that's what happened to these assholes.
• Ben Bernake refuses to disclose how much the Fed has lent out in assistance since this crisis started and we have no idea how much went to Goldman's or any other firm. We're talking 2.2 trillion in TALF money. Why the big secret? Are we a representative republic or aren't we?
• Goldman-Sachs used all of this state assistance to prop up lots of new risk-taking activity, which was the exact opposite of what was supposed to have been achieved by the bailouts, which were supposed to usher in a new era of austerity and temperance.
• Goldman has actually been emboldened by all its state backing to borrow more and gamble more than ever.

Taken altogether, says Taibbi, "what all of this means is that Goldman's profit announcement is a giant "fuck you" to the rest of the country. It is a statement of supreme privilege, an announcement that it feels no shame in taking subsidies and funneling them directly into their pockets and moreover feels no fear of any public response."

They fleeced all of us at the very moment the game should have been up for all of them. And it's still happening right this minute.

Are you awake yet?