Letters to the Editor
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They're both a pair of stinkin' liberals
The political parties that is.
The government has the responsibility to create a level economic playing field. One way this is done is by disclosure requirements - so we're all talking the same language. Another is to create rules that prevent some market participants from having an economic advantage - the G-S Act wasn't perfect but it did prevent the gamblers from having access to other people's money with which to do their betting which is the essence of our current difficulties.
They also have the responsibility to define economic crimes (remind me again - why aren't we prosecuting some of these mortgage brokers for fraud?).
It is not the government's role to hand out economic goodies. In living memory, the Republicrats have been giving them out to big business and the Demicans have always handed them out to the people. Neither vision of liberal giveaways is appropriate.