here's a headsup for those of us who thought installing obama as president would suddenly cure all political cancers: when it came time to draft the 'stress tests' by which banks would be judged following the economic meltdown that they created, the banks themselves wrote the tests, and scaled them to be as easy on themselves as possible.congress and obama let them. just like they let the credit card companies walk right over their proposed 'reforms'.
we're not saying it would have been any different if a republican was president. who's kidding who? the banks own capitol hill and everyone on it.
but that doesn't make this right, especially when it's our money - okay, china's money, which we now have to pay back - bailing these horse thieves out. i mean, can't we send a few dozen of them to prison, just for appearance's sake? and not a country club prison. i think we'd all enjoy it more if they went somewhere that offered them the possibility of becoming someone's bitch. hell, we'd pay money 24/7 to see that; it would make a great reality show.
so come on, mr. president (sorry, we don't have a cute pet name for him yet) - show some spine, buck the party, and throw this pampered lily-whites to the dogs. we might not get our 401k's back, but i guarantee we'll all sleep better.