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In reply to the discussion: Too Big to Jail? Obama at the top of bankster fraud. [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)Obama owes us a big apology. His appointments of Geithner, Bernanke and Holder were pure corruption. Shame on him.
He did well for our economy in other ways. But those appointments were sheer corruption, and the legacy of that corruption will outlive any other legacy he leaves. Outlive healthcare insurance reform for sure. Outlive his sincere attempt at reform of our foreign policy, outlive everything else. He needs to admit to what he did, because he is a good guy with a good heart, but somewhere along the way he made a deal with the devils on Wall Street. And those devils will claim the soul Obama sold to them for a long time to come.
I am thinking of the turmoil in American families as they lost their homes, the investments they made in their homes, their equity, their sweat.
I am thinking of the children in American families in which mama who has a college education now works for minimum wage.
I am thinking of the emotional price that families have paid, the divorces, the anger, the loss of confidence in each other. in themselves, the despair.
I am thinking of the talented, intelligent, hopeful children who have no money for college.
I am thinking of the many, many people in their 50s and 60s who are willing to work hard but can't get jobs and are living on what was supposed to be their retirement money.
Obama is fundamentally a kind and loving person. But, all this, and not just the good, will be part of his legacy, part of what will weigh on his conscience after he has left office, part of what he will have to live with as he watches his children become sucked into it, into the mire that his deal with the devil helped create because, in order to do the good things he tried to do, he went along with the corruption.
Corruption, the devils of Wall Street.
Satan.
Karma. It sucks.