It’s more the corrupt politicians who have taken Wall Street money and adjusted the laws to protect their donors. Then they use tax payer dollars to backstop the bad investments the banks made.
I’m a total capitalist, so don’t get me confused with the OWS crowd. I have never seen true capitalism in this country because the government distorts the markets, minimum wage, funding some companies and not others, can’t buy insurance across state borders, etc. Government has truly made a mess of things.
We need to get back to the constitution as written.
It’s a good link, thanks. Compare it with your Wall Street Journal link above, then sit down and cry. Everyone should see them both, for an apt illustration of the quality of dialogue in public space today. shamethebanks.org shows itself to be nothing but a hysterical rant. Click on their AboutUs link there, and it takes you to another rant which says little AboutUs, that is about Them, whoever they might be. Unpersuasive rants everywhere by spoiled children with credit cards they don’t deserve.
In the meantime, those evil banks send me credit card offers every day with thousands of airline and hotel points that smart people described in another WSJ article today collect and exchange for free first class vacations in Buenos Aires and Dubai. (One dude described has over 30 credit cards and he’s riding high!) Let us prey!