The people who are on this board making this a partisan issue are really one of the big problems in this country. They don't understand the system. They hear terms like derivative, and collateralized debt obligation, and then they go on to use them wrongly because they don't really know what they are or how they work.
They're angry and ignorant and then they hear Rush or Hannity run these words (that they also don't understand) through the "Republicans good, Democrats bad" filter, and that is all they can grasp so they cling to it as gospel. And that's just what Wall Street, DC, and the politicians want them to do. They want them ignorant and flailing at strawman targets so they can keep the fleecing going.
This time the problem is structural and not cyclical though and no amount of "animal spirits" boosterism is going to mask the rot and and keep it going.
I am glad that not everyone here is so willfully ignorant as a couple of my would be interlocutors.