Reply #210: LOL, you calling for a stop to the personal attacks [View All]

That's rich, especially since you have done everything but call me a racist. And speaking of not knowing people, you certainly don't know me, don't know my racial or personal background, thus you have no grounds to be judging whether or not I am a racist.

As far as stating that you're naive, that you need to wake up and look around, well the truth may hurt, but there it is. You're obviously blinded by your partisan bias in this matter, which is showing badly. Furthermore, you yourself admit Goldman Sachs was using its "position" in these bailouts to pursue their own agenda. Gee, and part of that "position" was closed door meetings with Paulson and Geithner to figure out how to divvy up AIG and who knows what else related to the bailout. You don't know these details, I don't know these details, but gee, Goldman Sachs certainly seems to have benefited handsomely from it, don't you agree.

As far as Summers goes, sure, he's pulling a mea culpa for public consumption, but are we seeing any sort of movement from him or this administration to re-regulate the industry? No, just pious mouthings and little else.

And while yes, the Bush/Cheney administration to reach unprecedented levels of corruption, to use that comparison in order to claim that the Obama administration is clean is misleading, to say the least. Just because this administration has yet to reach the levels of the last administration doesn't mean that there is no quid pro quo. Sorry, but quid pro quo has been the mother's milk of modern American politics extending back decades, and continues to this day. One has but to look at not just Obama's economic appointments, but other Cabinet positions to see the corporate influence that surrounds Obama. Vilsak, Salazar, along with many others have extensive corporate ties and friendships that shapes their worldview and political actions.

But hey, if you want to keep your head in the sand and deny the reality of the world around you, be my guest. Just don't complain when you wake up and find that this country has been sold out from underneath you.