Well for starters, yes the politicians de-regulated the banking sector. Doing that however, does not mean that we automatically bail them out when they fail? Congress people were intimidated into signing the bail-out bill, including threats of "total collapse" and "martial law" behind closed doors. There are c-span youtube videos with several people expressing their concern about this.
Barney Frank? Yeah........the guy had his boyfriend run a gay prositution ring out of a house he owned.
In hindsight of the Iraq war, everyone now knows that the public was flat out lied to about the weapons of mass destruction programs. The fear-mongering lies are what got people behind it. The media helped sell that one.
The Donald Rumsfeld press conference is on youtube also.
The political system itself is corrupt. It's run by banking oligarchs. The people have very little control of the government outside of voting.
"The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to the doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can "throw the rascals out" at any election without leading to any profound or extreme shifts in policy."
-Carroll Quigley (Bill Clintons mentor)
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