Why is it OK for him to afford the most powerful former SEC attorneys now in private practice that will delay his trial for 3-5 yrs...How can our government allow this to happen... How is Ok to bail out Wall St with $700B while I stress out and cry like a baby over my loss... How is it OK for Obama to be spending Christmas in Hawaii with is family staying at a $30M mansion, while my sickly mother flies from NC to Fort Lauderdale to hold and comfort her daughter... How is it OK that we have no Xmas tree or gifts this year?... How is it OK that my and my children's trust in mankind has been shattered... I suppose we will survive, but how we don’t know...

The immoral vision of immense wages, tremendous power and elite social status has driven Madoff, and many others on Wall Street, to cheat the innocent. And this has disillusioned the American public and shattered the dreams of millions.

My father’s now crossing the threshold into the final stages of his ten-year battle with Alzheimer’s disease – a battle he will ultimately lose. And I can’t help but contrast the compassion, care, empathy and love he’s received from nurses, doctors, aides and ambulance drivers with the selfishness, materialism, egotism and narcissism exhibited by Wall Street scam artists, power-hungry politicians, and pompous government bureaucrats. Dedicated, caring nurses are paid a few thousand dollars per year. Criminally incompetent bank CEOs are paid hundreds of millions per year. Who’s helping society more?

I’m convinced that the majority of Americans are decent human beings who simply want a fuller life and a legitimate opportunity for advancement. The last 25 years of materialistic psychosis was a temporary deviation on the road towards the American Dream. If the authorities would let capitalism run its course and allow the painful deleveraging that’s needed, we could get back on course. If it takes a depression to accomplish this, so be it. We’ve survived depressions before. It’s time to resist the Fed’s criminality and the government’s abuse of power. Ron Paul’s call for new patriots must be our rallying cry to reclaim the American Dream:

"The original American patriots were those individuals brave enough to resist with force the oppressive power of King George. I accept the definition of patriotism as that effort to resist oppressive state power. The true patriot is motivated by a sense of responsibility and out of self-interest for himself, his family, and the future of his country to resist government abuse of power. He rejects the notion that patriotism means obedience to the state."

Many people are looking for an easy answer to the tyranny that’s being imposed on us by the oligopoly of government, corporations and media, but there isn’t one. The original patriots struggled for 14 years to free themselves from British tyranny. Failure meant the hangman’s noose.

Our politicians, corporate CEOs and media pundits will provide comforting “solutions” that have been crafted by PR lowlifes whose talking points are lies. The only question is whether rational change will come when the existing system collapses under the weight of propaganda, or if we’ll take back the country through grassroots efforts by spreading the truth through the internet