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In reply to the discussion: Who determined that the NSA and TPP are the most important issues? [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)fraud have not been called into criminal court. That is the failure of the Obama administration.
In the S&L crisis, lots of bankers were called to answer for their fraud. The Wall Street debacle was caused by fraud and deception and by cheating at the stock market. Almost no prosecutions, much less convictions.
But the Obama administration let the bankers and the Wall Street crowd go unembarrassed and without prosecution. If a teenager gets caught putting graffiti on a wall, he goes to court.
That is one of the reasons that most of us are not too excited by Obama's vague comments about economic inequality. He doesn't walk the walk when he has the chance to correct some fundamental causes of the inequality -- like the injustice in our justice system.