Down the Banksters

Is there any way to get back to common sense and get rid of these two wallstreet parties' duo-cracy?
http://www.yesmagazine.org/pdf/liberateamericadownload.pdf
How to Liberate America from Wall Street Rule
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/07/19-8
The dominant story of the current political debate is that the government is broke. We can’t afford to pay for public services, put people to work, or service the public debt. Yet as a nation, we are awash in money. A defective system of money, banking, and finance just puts it in the wrong places.

http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/newsgraphics/2011/0119-budget/
Obama’s 2012 Budget Proposal: How $3.7 Trillion is Spent

How are the grapes now?
BBC News - In Steinbeck's footsteps: America's struggles in 2011
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-14296682
The BBC's Paul Mason retraces the harrowing journey taken by migrant workers the Joad family which John Steinbeck described in his 1939 novel The Grapes of Wrath, set during the Great Depression, to find out how it reflects the realities of America's current economic crisis.