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Rush talks frequently about the myth that wall street is a conservative bastion.

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_031909/content/01125108.guest.html

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And yet Rush portrays the bankers as victims who were forced by bad policy to defraud the world. They had no choice, Rush's template asserts, but to repackage crap loans, get their cronies at Moody's and S&P to fraudulantly rate them AAA, and sell them to whatever suckers would buy. They had no choice but to install their lackeys at the SEC so they could commit their frauds over and over again.

They aren't really crooks. They're honest, ethical businessmen that were driven to a life of crime. The devil made them do it. If we'd just leave them alone, they would conduct their business ethically and fairly!

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"Unfortunately, like any other human institution (for example Holy Church), capitalism tends to run amuck when it is not restrained, and democracy provides inadequate means of keeping it in order. There is never any surety that democracy will throw up leaders competent to discern the true dangers of capitalism and able to remedy them in a prudent and rational manner. Thus we have vacillated between letting it run wild and trying to ruin it. Both courses are hazardous and ineffective, and it is hard to say which is more so."

--H.L. Mencken