LICENSE TO STEAL

by Robert Sheer

AMERICA'S UNREGULATED BANKING SYSTEM ROBS THE POOR TO GIVE TO THE RICH.

Some will rob you with a six-gun, and some with a fountain pen." That image from "The Ballad of Pretty Boy Floyd" is out of date these days, since bankers and other thieves who foreclosed on the bereaved widow's home in Woody Guthrie's old folk song don't use fountain pens anymore. Instead, they rely on computerized transactions, online solicitations, international money swaps and all sorts of other secret shen