Past Polls
- 11/ 5/2009 What current movie title best sums up the state of the Republican Party right now?
- 11/ 3/2009 What 2009 election outcome will have the greatest long term implication?
- 11/ 1/2009 What is the significance of this week's regional elections?
- 10/29/2009 In honor of Halloween, we're calling out the scariest Democrats. Who scares you the most?
- 10/12/2009 How should the Obama administration handle Fox News?
- 10/ 8/2009 What do you think about President Obama's Nobel Peace Prize?
- 10/ 7/2009 What impact do you think Sarah Palin's upcoming memoir Going Rogue will have when it comes out this November?
- 10/ 4/2009 President Obama is reportedly 'angry' at Gen. McChrystal for publicly second guessing him on Afghanistan strategy. What do you think about their clash?
- 10/ 1/2009 What do you think about Roman Polanski’s arrest and its aftermath?
- 9/27/2009 US-Iran talks will take place in Geneva this week. What should President Obama focus on during the negotiations?
- 9/22/2009 Which story do you hope will get the most attention at the G-20 conference this year?
- 9/20/2009 What do you think of President Obama's five back-to-back Sunday morning major-network interviews and his Letterman appearance?
- 9/16/2009 How do you feel about President Carter's remarks about racism directed at Obama?
- 9/13/2009 The ongoing media attention on Rep. Joe Wilson's outburst is...
- 9/ 9/2009 What did you think of President Obama's healthcare speech to Congress?
- 9/ 7/2009 Why did so many parents across America not want President Obama to address the nation's schoolchildren?
- 9/ 1/2009 What should President Obama emphasize in his speech to Congress on healthcare?
- 8/27/2009 How will the loss of Sen. Ted Kennedy affect healthcare reform?
- 8/23/2009 On which issue has the mainstream media done the worst job?
- 8/17/2009 Should progressives support a healthcare bill without a public option?
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Deregualtion has allowed the thieves entry to the vault. Over many a year, we knew regulations kept the worst at bay, the notion that bankers and financiers are somhow more "responsible" than we poor mortals is absurd. Regulation and prosecution for those that insist on ignoring or twisting the regulations is the only defense we have agaisnt the massive greed of those charged with "taking care" of finance.
Posted by rasputin195 at 05/8/2009
Money is a drug more powerful than Heroin. We can't just dole it out and expect that the addict will do the right thing later. This is insane.
Posted by D1od1o at 05/9/2009
Clinton & Rubin did it with the abolition of Glass-Steagall. neither has expressed any regrets, both have been regally rewarded. Obama, Geithner, Summers show no sign of reinstituting genuinely effective regulation, but prefer to play palliative bromide games with toothless salary cap "rules." They too will be suitably blessed by their beneficiaries.
Posted by sloper at 05/9/2009
I think those of us who complain here that only regulation will correct everything fail to take into account that serious regulation is most likely to be in the cards in the near future, but that the ship needs to be steadied a bit first, and that's exactly what seems to be happening. At a point when our financial system is at least off of life support, I'm pretty sure the Obama administration, as well as congress, will be enacting some major regulatory reform. To do so now would be premature and would just make things much worse. Obama told us during the campaign that it would be a long process, and has repeated that throughout his 4 months in office, but everyone's writing him off as a failure before he even gets started. Take a breath, America. Jeez!
Posted by playwrtr at 05/9/2009
Where do they think the banks are going to get the capital they are required to raise? The banks are already raising the fees and rates they charge us in order to repay the gov. for the money we loaned them. Is that a form of double dipping? Yeap, right into our wallet.
Posted by AmsGram at 05/10/2009
Use this and remember it...
Einstein said: "The problems that exist in the world today, cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them..!"
Good one isn't it and perfectly applicable for what we are witnessing in regard to this financial economic crisis....
TJ...
Posted by TJColatrella at 05/10/2009