A Suicide-​Inducing Congress?

The vilification of those who produce wealth, & those who profit from their work & expertise, has now reached idiotic proportions. Chartered buses take protesters to homes in suburban Connecticut, to march outside the homes of those financial types. Nothing like threatening the executives, their wives, & especially their kids, is there?! The attitude apparently is, since I hate you & I think all should share equally (despite the fact many of these protester folks cannot even balance their checkbooks, let alone run serious financial companies), its OK for me & my buddies to advocate actual violence against you & yours. After all, the utopia we were promised by “the one” could be threatened unless we find ways to force you to comply with the dream!
The credit derivatives market was s scam that should put some in jail. BUT. We cannot just stop functioning financially. That suicide would mean all will suffer a lot more than in the Great Depression. And attacking people you think are responsible for something, simply solves nothing, but it does cause some who are attacked to seek equally violent solutions or protections.
The truth is, our people re protesting the wrong people. This was ALL caused by politicians in Washington. They allowed the credit derivatives to exist & be written. They allowed regulations to be stymied by people like Barney Frank, under the guise of racism, when in fact the proposed regulations by McCain, even George Bush, & many others, were good financial solutions that would have kept the markets solvent. Yes they would have limited or slowed the loans to poor people. BUT, those same poor people are among the largest group defaulting on loans they should never have been allowed to take out! Washington allowed those bad loans to be bundled into those credit derivative instruments & Washington allowed those credit derivatives to be marketed as “AAA” bonds, when they were no such thing at all & had investors known the poor quality of the bonds they would never have bought them. But even AIG investors were duped into thinking those bonds were good stuff. So its easy to see anyone could have been duped, except those who seriously under- stand those instruments. That list of people is extremely short.
But Washington knew. Frank, Dodd & a host of others had already been briefed on the volatility of these bonds, yet they did not act. After all, even if they go bad, all it meant was ALL Americans would have to help keep the poor in their homes. The socialist idea was, lets not worry about spreading the wealth, lets spread the poverty! And now we all have to deal with this mess.
Washington created the instruments, blocked specific regulations (despite the allegations regulations were not written because of those terrible Republicans), that would have staved off this mess, Washington allowed corporate executives to provide cover for themselves & the politicians who enabled them, & Washington is making this worse by spending us into bankruptcy.
Too bad Republicans do not know how to articulate this to the people in an understandable manner, so the public could decide to throw out the right bums the next time around.
Even if Republicans were bad guys, none of those actions were going to drive us into financial collapse. What the Democrats are doing will. Add to this the socialist policies & the plans for citizen corps service groups, & so many other plans to force us to be even more dependent on Washington, & what we have is the dismantling of the Constitutional Republic once known as America!