I can't believe how some of you guys actually defend these bank CEO's.
What's up with that?
The age old question.
For the most part, the republican party of the las 29 years has worked to shift the burden of gov. funding to the middle class and lower class while simultaneously removing the burden of taxes and accountability from the financial elites. Destroy unions, social security, regulations of any sort that require accountability/transparency of the financial elites. Then to bring it all together, they demonize government itself and play up quasi-libertarian fantasies mythologizing the rugged individual.
Republican governmental officials tell us that government is the problem.
Small government is paramount. So these republicans enlarge gov. more than LBJ did.
These same republicans take advantage of gov. contracts to get rich and stay rich while telling us of the virtues of rugged individualism and the free market.
Parts of these mixed messages appeal to the lower and middle class resulting in a paralyzing of the ability to grasp intellectually/analytically the polar opposites in those messages. So even though the legislative efforts of the republicans undercut the economic well-being of these classes of people, they still support them to their own detriment.
These people find themselves in the position of defending the very people that have damaged them and the country.