[Scanian]

"Want to know why Wall Street honchos make so much more money that you do? It's because the money men are essential to the politicians, and you are not."

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

American Thinker ping.

[Carley]

They’re fuming now because the lobby dollars are going to the republicans. They had no problem when the dems were getting the big dollars.

The msm can DROP DEAD for all I care.

[BipolarBob]

The liberals wish to KILL capitalism by killing Wall Street. And after society collapses, they’ll be blaming everyone but themselves (their favorite pastime). Same as the housing bubble. In an effort to make “housing affordable”, they hatched a scheme to facilitate lower income people to have a way to get their dream house. The only hitch was they couldn’t afford it. And when it all blew up, they blamed everyone except the real perpetrators.

[AlexW]

“Dems Fume over Wall Street Trillions”

Pot calling the kettle black.

[SoCal SoCon]

Any sympathy I might have had for Wall Street evaporated when my tax dollars were used to bail out failed banks. Wall Street is as elitist as any liberal: they want to keep the profits they make when times are good but they feel entitled to government bailouts when things go bad. Privatized gains and socialized losses are what got us into this mess in the first place. You can’t have it both ways, folks. I have a similar contempt for corporate CEOs who get “golden parachute” benefit packages while their companies file for bankruptcy; a captain should go down with his ship.

Personally, I favor a return to capitalism dominated by small, family-owned businesses. That’s the kind of economy that made America great and I believe that’s the kind of economy we need to restore our country to its former prestige. I only hope it’s not too late.

[Graybeard58]

I don't envy the Wall Street "Trillions", nor does it bother me in the least, as long as it wasn't obtained illegally. If it were obtained "immorally" that will be between them and God at the great judgment day.

[elpadre]

And citizens are fuming against a Congress gone wild spending trillions and amassing humongous debt for us to pay off.

The new Congress should immediately take steps to reduce the damage done.

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

Democrats and other communists hate waking up every morning and thinking that they don’t control ALL the means of production.

[Donald Rumsfeld Fan]

Perhaps the purpose of the article is merely to buttress the narrative, copyrighted by Sgt. Schultz of Hogan's Heroes, that liberals know nothing -- nothing about Fannie and Freddie.

Sgt. Schultz

[<1/1,000,000th%]

"Despite the very dire consequences of the latest financial crisis that Wall Street perpetrated on the world, ...

I missed all this.

I thought the crisis came from the Dems shaking down banks and mortgages companies to suppport their "urban housing program" after having bankrupted the savings and loan industry to fill their pockets with cash.

[denydenydeny]

Potential nice silver lining here that we may get Democrats on board with legislation requiring more oversight for the out-of-control Fed.