<![CDATA[RealClearPolitics - Articles by Michael Thomas]]>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/authors/?id=23835Author <![CDATA[Wall Street Has Destroyed America]]> Mon, 26 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0600 Imagine a vast field on which a terrible battle has recently been fought, the bare ground cratered by fusillade after fusillade of heavy artillery, trees reduced to blackened stumps, wisps of toxic gas hanging in the gray, and corpses everywhere.

A terrible scene, made worse by the sound of distant laughter, because somehow, on the heights commanding the dead zone, the officers' club has made it through intact. From its balconies flutter bunting, and across the blasted landscape there comes a chorus of hearty male voices in counterpoint to the wheedling of cadres of wheel-greasers, the click of betting chips, the orotund declamations of a visiting congressional delegation: in sum,...]]>