Instead of talking about throwing more money into Wall Street, Congress should be talking criminal investigations, criminal indictments, special prosecutors and white collar crime. It is inconceivable that no laws were broken, no lies were told under oath, no collusion occurred to bring us to this point.
To let the perps walk away with millions, possibly billions of dollars, will subject this country to greater greed, greater ruthlessness, and greater oppression of those who cannot afford to fight back.
With great astonishment I watch, with the rest of the world, as the banking industry melts away before our very eyes. Simultaneously, the Bush administration and the Republican forces in Congress insist that we must "bail out" the Wall Street tycoons who created this world wide crisis with a blank check and no stipulations. To say I am aghast at this sheer lack of leadership, judgment and scruples would be a gross understatement