Imprudent financial policies have led to the crisis on Wall Street. For the moment in supporting unprecedented solutions, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson says in effect he’s playing the hand dealt by his predecessors. And as for his role in essentially advocating nationalizing financial institutions, Federal Reserve Chairman Benjamin Bernanke is quoted as saying there are no ideologues in a financial crisis just as there are no atheists in a foxhole. For decades, seasoned financial titans argued against the most egregious social engineering pork while erecting “lego” financial houses structurally outfitted from the same genre of ‘engineering’ blueprints. As recently as...