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.

And the reason its not going to happen is because our politicians are bought. They are bought by the big corporations, banks, polluting industries, etc…
Our politicians spend the majority of their time fund raising. This is our system. The lobbyists control the agenda and basically write our laws and regulations.
Both parties engage in this. They may be good people, but it is the system we have created. Until we get big money interest out of our political system, nothing will change.