Parasites Come Out Of The Woodwork As Our Money System Collapses

It"s everywhere, isn't it? We're being nickel and dimed to death and flat out ripped off by people and institutions taking their cue from everyone else around them and a government rooted in corrution - get what you can by any means you can get away with. It's now balls to the wall and pedal to the metal. Stories like this are legion : Piling On: Borrowers Buried by Fees

"SLOWLY but surely, a handful of public-minded bankruptcy court judges are drawing back the curtain on the mortgage servicing business, exposing, among other questionable practices, the sundry and onerous fees that big banks and financial companies levy on troubled borrowers. (...)
The cases come out of bankruptcy courts in Delaware, Louisiana and New York, and each one shows how improper, undisclosed or questionable fees unfairly penalize borrowers already struggling with mortgage debt or bankruptcy."

(For years the fee our local waste management charged to haul our garbege away stayed the same, lately it's been creeping up. Suddenly the bill had an extra $5 tacked on last month. When I called it was because "the lid wasn't fully closed" and they charged me for "extra yardage", a brand new tactic to pad the bill)

It's not just housing where they come at you with a vengeance. Who hasn't seen shenanigans with their credit cards, where banks unilaterally raise interest rates sky high out of the blue? Who doesn't shake their head when filling up the car? Insurance is now more expensive and covers less. Notice how costs have risen everywhere even when nothing in the world should have precipitated a change?

(I recently had a couple of operations and a tooth problem. The health care racket is currently going batshit crazy to rob the sick and vulnerable. If you so much as glance at the hospital entrance you'll be charged that detestable "copay". I had outpatient care and they tried charging me $1100 for a room I may have spent 45 minutes in. To change the sheets. I went to three dentists. Each did several Xrays of the tooth. $85 a pop.)

I'm no financial analyst but I can guess why this is happening. Aside from deregulations that threw the door wide open for abuse, our entire financial system in recent decades has favored the pencil pushers who transfer money here and there but don't actually produce anything. We became a nation full of manipulative middlemen and shameless gougers who have lost their humanity and prey on the vulnerable. Take the absolute worst of all economic systems, mush them together and voila! Us.

(Time to put the garden in and boy have the nurseries learned how to maximize profits. Years past a person could buy seedlings in tray packs of 4 or 6 or 8. Now each little plant proudly comes in it's very own plastic compartment with the price commensurably proud. Start your own seeds or go bankrupt)

Everybody's taken their cue to go for the glory. Especially services and vendors who have known they were the only game in town and have recently risen to the challenge to become world class scumbags. Got our cable service? Well since you can't go anywhere else in your area for cable we'll just add ten bucks for the priviledge of doing business with us. Don't feel like going down to the river with a bucket for your water? Then you won't mind a tiny rate hike per month, will you. You see any other gas station here in Gorda? The worst is going to come when big players, like major corporations who have been guaranteed their profit margins, start feeling the pinch. That to me is when the real train wreck begins because the corrupt rats in all governments know who they're beholden to, and it ain't we little people:

"The UK Government has announce a $100+ BILLION (unlimited) bank bailout whilst doubling the income tax rate on one of the poorest segments of society -- whilst using Enron style accounting loopholes to avoid it being correctly counted as national debt."

It's all spiralling out of control as the parasites kill the hosts.