Why should it be foreign to spend public tax money on directly benefiting the general public?

Rather, the govt would rather cater to the interests of a small group of wealthy individuals ...... individuals who want to increase their wealth at the expense of the general public.

Well, it turns out that the large private banking institutions and manufacturers have turned out to be greedy, selfish bastards who have no concern for others and don't even want to accept responsibility for the financial collapse they have created.

If you think that small 5% to 6% of the population whose asses you have kissed are going to spend enough of their money to keep the economy going ...... you're as crazy as the Congress.

The fact is that the same people who created this mess are in control of the so-called recovery.

And not only have they not been forced to give up their ill-gotten gains (the profits they made while destroying the system), but they are receiving tax moneys from people without jobs to divert into their pockets.

Garry Shandling last night on the Tavis Smiley show called these people "money addicts".

Why was Obama or anybody else surprised that these people continued to give themselves bonuses after receiving public money ?

If you give a cocaine addict a big pile of cocaine, do you think he/she is going to share it around with their family, friends and neighbors ?

No, they're going to keep it all for themselves to shove up their own noses.

Wake up .....

There are people who know what to do ...... for example Nouriel Rubini and Nassim Taleb (author of the Black Swan) ....... but doing the right, rational thing for the public, the country and the world economy goes against the interests of a small group of people who put us in this mess.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk4TgUxX0fQ

The govt's approach is wrong and things will continue to get worse.

Brian May, former lead guitarist for Queen, returned to school and got his PhD in astrophysics and has since written a book on the subject.

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Even when these things come to light, many seem to think that the police were only "bending the rules" to convict people who really were guilty of something.

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Perhaps that is how americans felt about the torture episodes they were reading about.

Sadly, I really don't think the change in attitudes toward the Iraq war were due to our loss of liberties here in America, our ignoring of international law or even the deaths and maimings of Iraqui civilians or American soldiers.

Rather, I think it was mostly due to economic issues.

The American people eventually saw the unfairness of the Bush tax policies ..... as the economy soured, the economic drain of an unwinnable war became seen as the bottomless pit of tax dollars that it is ..... and finally the collapse of the finance sector made it all unacceptable.

I really believe the election was a toss-up between Obama and McCain till Wall Street crashed (believe it or not).

We're still in Iran for the long haul and Afghanistan is another tar baby for american tax money and lives ....... just ask the Russians.

In the late 60's, while a student in Chapel Hill, NC, there was a city detective who was very ambitious.

He would knock on the doors of longhairs around 5:00 AM.

Half-asleep, they would stumble to the door where a warrant would be pushed in their face and then the detective and a group of policemen would push past the half-asleep unfortunate.

A bag of marijuana would be tossed behind the couch and a few minutes later would be "found".

Of course, he had a high conviction rate.

He is now sheriff of the county.

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"Now that I'm not in the government, part of my role, because I have a certain amount of expertise, is to try to keep the government honest."

Ergo, if you are in govt, you have no responsibility to keep the govt honest.

If you accept the role of being dishonest while being a govt employee you are ethically flawed ..... to the point anything you say from that point on lacks credibility.

This guy should be a pariah ........ an "untouchable" and ignored by everyone including the media.

Das ist der vollkommene Plan ..... ja

Ahh, yes ........ the banality of evil.

Anyone who is really willing to sit down and think the entire matter out will discover that the blame for the events of the last decade rest not at the feet of the Bush administration, the Congress or the Courts but at the feet of the American people.

Mourn for the implications ......