This goes across party lines to the fact that Congress listens to and
acts in the best interests of lobbyists and no longer the local guy
who elected him.
I just got finished listening to a program on NPR (Diane Rheems show)
where she interviewed an author who traced the problems with
derivatives back to the 90's.
This is not a party problem, but a political system problem.
Captialism is an ism like every other ism and has become a
religion. (Not an original line, I give credit to Rev. Dr. Ed Schroder)
Stewart
At 11:55 AM 9/17/2009, you wrote:
Five people at ACORN were involved in the videos. They were fired.
While they behaved wrongly, many others at ACORN were also set up
and filmed illegally, and the employees in other offices called the
police when the fake posers became too aggressive and refused to
leave. Individuals did the wrong thing and were punished, however,
blaming ACORN and trying to shut them down, when what they do is
help poor, mostly African American, people, is disingenuous.
Instead of blaming the cleanup guy, Geithner, why not go back
further to charge other government bureaucrats like Goldman Sachs'
Hank Paulson who handed out money to his friends on Wall Street
without requiring any accountability. Paulson is an example of a
government bureaucrat who also is a capitalist Wall Street
banker--at the same time. Go back a bit further and charge Billy
Tauzin who fought for a Medicare prescription drug bill that
prohibited negotiating with drug companies, while taking lots of
money from Pharma, then immediately leaving to head Pharma. Then
there's Dick Cheney whose holdings in Halliburton and related
industries were directly related to his actions as VP. Yesterday Max
Baucus emerged from committee to present a health insurance proposal
that's more friendly to private insurance companies and Pharma than
to the American people, while taking over $6 million from the
private health care industry over the past 6 years. There are many
more examples of private corporate interest overseeing actions in
Congress, to the point of writing legislation. There's guilt on both
sides of the aisle, inside and outside the government.
Who profited from the change from analog to digital TV when public
frequencies were sold instead of leased or licensed, and now
millions of people are without television? Who profits from lack of
competition in broadband, and which members of Congress work for
those companies instead of working for us?
That duality is the problem. That duality must be controlled. The
government should represent 'We, the people...' not 'We, the
corporations...' Where friendliness to corporations benefits people,
that's great, but where it harms people, compromise and strong
regulation is necessary.
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