This is a case for financial disobedience.
Stop paying your credit cards; apply for as many credit cards as you can, run them as high as you can, don't pay down a dime on them.
Stop filing tax returns, paying your mortgage. If tens of millions of people do that, banks and government will finally realize that despite of all of their power they ultimately depend on the goodwill - or rather the passive non-will - of the people.
But there is not the slightest chance of that to ever happen, and that's why G.W., the master of fear and denial, got anything he wanted, from the war in Iraq to the fascistic post-nazi patriotic act, to this infamous bail-out!
It's not only Maddoff who created a Ponzi scheme. The entire US economy is a Ponzi scheme.
For year Americans have been brain-washed to buy things they didn't need with money they didn't have to sustain the lifestyle of the hyper-wealthy, and now it's all falling apart.
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