The NYTimes.com editorial asks the obvious question: With Financial Reform, Whose Side Are the Republicans On?

Editorial

Whose Side Are They On?

Published: April 17, 2010

Last month Democrats on the Senate banking committee passed a reasonably tough financial regulatory reform bill. Now Republican leaders have suddenly begun lashing out against it.

Did they belatedly discover some problem? No. They suddenly realized that their bet that reform would be watered down as it moved along might not pan out.

via nytimes.com

It's a shame the NYTimes can't just call it like it is--that neither side will make the changes required to make our economy a real economy again.

There are just too many games to be played--too many tricks to be used to fool people--all legal. When we have a government willing to do away with these bullshit games, then I'll change my mood. For now, it's sad to see "the Paper of Record" ask such obvious questions like "Whose side are they on?"

The same side! The corporations' side. Why is there a conflict if Dems and Repubs are BOTH on the side of corporations? Because they're on the side of different corporations, silly!

If either party truly cared about We, The People, they'd be dismantling Wall Street, shutting down the Federal Reserve and reforming banking laws completely.

Oh and splitting the country down the middle between socialism and free market. Necessities of life go the socialist route (health care, housing, food, clothes, some communications) and everything else (probably based on a price level) the free market route.

It really does seem like the time to start from scratch, doesn't it?

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