Dude, What Financial Reform?
The most important thing to know about the 1,500 page financial reform bill passed by the Senate last week — now on he way to being reconciled with the House bill — is that it’s regulatory. It does nothing to change the structure of Wall Street.
This is indicative of the over-arching problem that the whole republic faces:
So why has Obama consistently chosen regulation over restructuring? Because restructuring Wall Street or health care would surely elicit firestorms from these industries. Both are politically powerful, and Obama did not want to take them on directly.
It’s the money, the filthy lucre in politics that keeps those who don’t pay to be represented from receiving effective representation
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Excellent read. In summary: we need...won’t really do shit.
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