I'd say that was the government's doing not wall street. When some jackass wants to break up the banks that leaves the root of the problem - a corrupt crony government behind that will just find another willing partner to take big chunks of taxpayer cash and then share it back with the bureaucrats who set up the scam in the first place. The banks may be the recipients of taxpayer loot, but the government is the entity that looted it in the first place. You want to break something up - break up big government.
> I’d say that was the government’s doing not wall street.
Wall Street is far and away the biggest donor to political campaigns and the biggest source of lobbying dollars.
The government in its ripping you off is doing the bidding of their Wall Street donors.
It’s an anti-free-market racket that makes obscene amounts of money for people who produce no wealth, they merely siphon others’.
Surely you have noticed that the government does not respond at all to your concerns. That’s because you don’t show up with big barrels full of money like the Wall Streeters do.
I spent quite some time working with an alliance of grassroots conservative groups in order to reform the GOP and wrest control from the establishment. At every turn, we were faced with obscenely-well-funded opposition who invariably had pulled millions in donations, donations that were not from the districts where the contests were occurring but from downtown Manhattan.
When Eric Cantor lost to Dave Brat, he had millions in Wall Street cash to spend and it was only the recognition of the source of that corruption that enabled the grassroots conservatives to fight it.