Amen to that. "The crash" is where I went off the rails in hoping there was any real chance of fixing this perverted system. Sometimes people get to bogged down in details to see the simplicity of some of the things that happen. It's an easy bait n' switch when we were basically pat on the head and told it's too complex for us to understand.
Part of the perversion is clear as day to me. You had a real estate market whose true value was around 1 trillion being traded to the tune of 7 trillion. Evidence enough right there that this was all "Monopoly money". Yet when AIG was deemed "too big to fail", they, and subsequently, those they insured, were bailed out dollar for dollar. So these criminals traded in their Monopoly money for real dollars at the taxpayer's expense. And then, to celebrate, laughed out loud and stuck a big middle finger in our faces when they all paid themselves huge bonuses.
If that's not clear evidence that "they" don't even care that we know this game is fixed, I don't know what is.
The crazy part about this (especially when you look at how we choose to debate things like the health of our economy) is that the run-up to the crash, the crash itself, and the "clean-up" were overseen by both parties. Both parties (at one point or another) were in the WH and had control of House/Senate and greenlit laws that contributed to that crash. And bailout (IIRC) was drafted up by one president (GWB) and executed by the next one (Obama).
Side note: stuff like this is why I get all pissy when we argue the economy the way we do during election years
