Do you change your mind easily after you have made a decision?

[kentuck]

Some folks, once they have made a decision, will never change it, no matter how much the circumstances change. George W Bush comes to mind. Nobody likes to admit they were wrong.

Barack Obama made the decision to rescue the banks at any and all costs. Otherwise, our entire economic system would collapse. The capitalists of the world must love him immensely?

His decision to hire the former head of the New York Federal Reserve Bank, Timothy Geithner, is looking more and more like a disastrous mistake. He and the banks are playing the American people for every penny they can get. And Larry Summers was making a personal fortune defending and promoting the big banks as late as last year. He has taken millions and millions of their dollars.

But, they are making the decisions about what role banks will play in the recovery of our economy. Robert Reich and others have pointed out the short-sightedness of their policies. So far, they have not lent money to jumpstart our economy. They have continued to pay off huge bonuses to their people and to buy up other banks with their collateral, even as our economy sinks deeper and deeper into recession and millions lose their jobs. The banks don't give a big shit.

How long will Obama stick with this decision? Three months before the next election, when the economy is still in the tank and the banks are flourishing, will he then change the captains on the boat? Tell me what is democratic or socialistic about this policy? The big banks take the gold mine and we get the shaft.