Riots Spread in Europe: "Here's the question. When will Americans decide they've had enough and start rioting? I believe that Obama's got about 6 to 8 months. At that point, if things aren't getting better, I think there'll be violence. The bailout was the key moment with respect to this. Giving away that much money, and getting nothing for it, is going to be the rallying cry for the disaffected. Americans imagine that 'class war' means 'the rich screwing the poor and calling it business as usual' but if Obama doesn't do an FDR and save capitalism from its own excesses, I think Americans are going to learn the old mantra that the 'only war is class war'. Bankers got their bailout, they had best stop self-dealing and make that bailout work for everyone, or one day they may find that the 5% increase on credit card statement is getting stuffed forcibly down their collective throats."
(Via Firedoglake.)
