Reply #11: No, but I did believe then and still do, that had fewer dollars gone to the banks and Wall Street

[bertman]

and more gone into stimulating the economy, we would be better off now than we are. There were many top-of-the-line economists who said the same thing, but they were not selected to run the President's recovery plan, were they? Having Rubin's proteges and collaborators from Wall Street and the financial sector set up the loan arrangements in the first place was criminal. Those guys are multi-millionaires because they helped orchestrate this disaster. Their interest was in protecting the fortunes of the Wall Street/Bankster gangs. Giving relief to Main Street was so far down on President Obama's list that he's still trying to get around to it.