Gerald Celente: The Selloff of America

The Tea Party was the beginning of protest against the status quo, but they were co-opted by the Republican party  — Gerald Celente

The bailouts worked precisely the way they were supposed to: they made the rich richer and the big bigger. Washington was hijacked by Wall Street.

RT Oct 2010 | "What they did with the bailouts is they made the banks bigger. You have ten banks controlling essentially 80 percent of all the action. So the bailouts worked exactly the way they were supposed to do: They made the rich richer and the big bigger.

"So it's a success if you look at it like that. And that's, as you pointed out, with the gap between the rich and the poor the widest in the United States of any of the industrialized nations, the trend continues in that…"