Reply #73: Those days are over

[abelenkpe]

the days of What's Good for Wall Street is good for America. Public opinion has shifted and while it's turning slowly it is turning.

For all the whining about donations and influence does any one here honestly believe that if McCain or Bush or any republican were in office that Goldman Sachs or anyone on wall street would be being investigated by the SEC? Or that financial reform would even be on anyone's mind? That alone should say something.

Personally I think Goldman Sachs is done. They signed their own death certificate over a year ago. If they survive at all they will be greatly diminished in stature and influence. The big banks too.
Insurance companies will fall as well. They gambled just as much as the banks. Their own business model will kill them. (My father is a retired insurance CEO.) We'll end up with single payer. If we don't let bigoted shit for brains idiot tea baggers gain any headway and keep pressuring our own reps to do the right thing. No it won't be easy, but we're on the right path for the first time since Reagan was in office. If your expecting everything to be magically fixed in a year or two you're setting yourself up for disappointment.

I'm not saying one shouldn't criticize the administration or believe in unicorns. Just don't lose focus of the bigger picture.