[DrC]

“How can American’s really think that more regulation is the answer, when the regulators we’ve got don’t regulate?”

Because if they swallow this idea, it will make it seem more plausible that government can run health care for all even after horrifically mismanaging Medicare. If Americans grasped the truth, they would realize that Obama’s prescribed exactly the wrong medicine for the financial industry and for health care.

[khnyny]

The same type of criminality and corruption exists in the private sector as well. After a certain point however, when the company's shareholders and/or owners lose money because of this behavior, they are caught and punished. No amount of cya’ing works. (Or at least this is the way the “free market” used to work).

The government, well, that's different. It seems that each part of the governments' personal and professional interests are deeply intertwined. The illusion of competency must be maintained at all costs.

[bioqubit]

THE IMPOSSIBLE DREAM - Laaaaaaaa, La, la la lala laaaaaa...

Yes, the impossible dream, what else can we dream?

SEC regulators, thugs, thieves, liars and criminals one and all - in jail, in jail to stay-all. Oh to dream the impossible dream.... Laaaaaaa, La, la, lala laaaaaaa.....