How much more will we have to endure?

The list of offenses against the public trust is a long one and continues to grow seemingly unchecked years after becoming a matter of public consumption. Just to name a few, we have; the savings and loan debaucle and Whitewater, Enron, Global Crossing, giving lots of taxpayer money to several airlines immediately after 9/11 with no public comment or safeguards. Getmo, Abu-Graeb, And then comes Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson (aka Colonel Clink) screaming that the sky will fall upon all of our heads if we don't abandon the free market system and nationalize Wall Street, most banks, and now a host of other industries with more money than they can reasonably borrow from foreign countries that have collected a stockpile of our dollars over the years.

So they are cranking up the presses at treasury. The problem with this is that when the logjam of credit finally breaks (as it eventually will) and there is all this cheap money in circulation we will face hyperinflation like we haven't seen before. And the Fed will have to raise interest rates to try to combat it.

The United States needs to get serious about holding those who are responsible for these transgressions to account for it.

And let's not forget about good old Bernie Madoff, a classic sociopath swindler who even bilked his own sister out of millions of dollars (what a low-life scum). He should be charged with the murder of that mutual fund manager who took his own life because of the losses he suffered by the heinous acts of Madoff. Perhaps what outrages me the most is the fact that Madoff is still out on bond living in his penthouse before his trial. Is that judge a human being or some kind of alien from another planet? What the heck was he thinking, "not a flight risk" yeah right. Madoff is an absconder who cannot be trusted; he should be in a cell awaiting his fate.

And where is Chris Cox the SEC chairman, in all of this Madoff madness (and the two other fund managers from Florida who have absconded with millions since)? We haven't heard a peep out of Cox. The congress should be grilling Cox (over open coals). They should have Cox's head on the chopping block as these words are being typed and read by others. Where is accountability, integrity, public trust, common sense? is there not a modicum of any of these pertinent traits left in our elected public servants? Is everyone really only out for themselves anymore? For once, can we please even consider that the interests of others might just be more important than our own? Are we really just that greedy?