Where's the anger!!! I don't consider this a rant until you explode through the screen and start chewing on my keyboard

Couldn't agree with you more, but I don't think this is your worst yet.  The cuts really didn't distract.  One suggestion I could offer, and I'm not at all saying that I think this was necessary here, would be to throw up a still image if you need to do a cut that you feel is a bit rough.  Something topic, maybe even funny, for just a few seconds.  It's a pretty easy technique to pull off in most video editing software.

One thing that I don't understand is why capitalist evangelicalists don't seem to see the value in making the system work for a majority of people.  It seems to me that it's at least possible to take care of most people and still make out like a bandit.  1% of the population holding 8% of the wealth might not seem as good as 1% holding 20%, but sweet baby Jesus.. I guess that's the problem with greed.  Younger women, older whiskey, faster horses, more money.  There's never enough.

Perhaps it's just ideology trumping pragmatism.  I'm not sure, but it seems like the long-term benefits to plutocratic oligarchs of a system that is stable and bountiful for most people sells itself.  Of course, I guess if you were really greedy and short-sighted you could shove the rules around until you end up with a system that looks like it's making everyone better off while you strip out all of the equity and sell it out of the backdoor.  It's a good game until it's not.

This vlog is great.  The cuts are fine, like DF said they fit the style.  What you said - clear and controlled.  The only problem I have is the idea that the rich have to "sacrifice" for the rest of americans.  That is just too strong of a word.  Besides, their shenaigans are what got us in this mess in the first place.  They have been overpaid for too long.  I refuse to be terrified of the threat they will pick up and go somewhere else.  Just where are taxes so much lower then here?  After reading to pieces in the NYT today, I think a lot of "rich" are going to be living a different life.  The first was a piece about ANOTHER ponzi scheme.  Now becoming a daily occurance - the rich being fleeced by their own.  The second was about managers now working as janitors and others not finding jobs.  I still believe this crisis is going to clear out a lot of crap from our society.  The republicans are in a frenzy and will keep shouting insane things like Obama is a socialist and Obama's war on the wealthy but as the crisis worsens people are not going to have time to listen to them.  I feel very sorry for the people that are losing their savings in those ponzi schemes.  I really hope there are not too many of more of them to be found.  A couple of years ago I knew 3 people that were directly affected by our local scammer - Al Parrish.  It is so ugly.  Madoff and his ilk should spend years in jail.