re: #141 Killgore Trout

Agreed. My original criticism of the Tea Party agenda is the same with OWS. The bailouts were necessary. It was essential to save our banking infrastructure. Serious banking reform is going to be very difficult under normal circumstances because of the big money involved. In today’s political environment with the obstructionist GOP it’s next to impossible. I’d like to see more serious talk about banking regulations as well as breaking up the large megabanks but I don’t think that’s going to happen.

Of course it’s not going to happen. The same people who would push back the hardest on actual banking reform and regulations are the same ones who work the hardest to convince people to vote against their own economic interests every single time by telling them that reform and regulation are an end to America as we know it.

Ergo, we have movements like OWS and the Tea Party.