Mr. Gilani would make a great politician, would he not? What exactly is your position, Mr. Gilani, other than that you would like to have your cake and eat it too?

While Mr. Gilani's stance is not apparent, what is apparent is that the principle of freedom and liberty is completely lost on Mr. Gilani as well as every comment-poster to this page. I understand taxpayer concern over how their money is spent, but why attack the bankers rather than the morally bankrupt politicians who are choosing to bail them out? I suppose the answer to this is simple: fear. The politicians have convinced the masses that the world will end if we let our current banking system fail. Common sense would tell us that as long as there is demand for borrowing and lending in a free market, it certainly will take place, even if we don't have banks named Citibank, Chase, and Bank of America. In, times like these, however, it is clear that common sense does not prevail, but rather the continued transfer of power into the hands of a small group of elite, who continue to do immense damage to our future prosperity.

When will people wake up?

The government then incentivizes bad business practices in the name of "helping" the poor into housing ownership. Of which they provided minimal or in many cases zero "after signing" support programs to help these new homeowners develop long term plans and budgets needed for the responsible managment and protection of their newly acquired assets.

Why doesn't or didn't the law makers of this country step in and fix the problems they themselves helped to create? The answer is simple, to do so would require cutting off the stream of tax revenues from those "greedy high income earners". Simply put you can't keep artifically moving the tax payer goal posts and expect anyone to win the game.

Moving tax payers out of "middle tax brackets" and pushing them into "lower tax brackets" first breaks their moral and reduces the desire to be productive. People with no desire to be productive are more receptive to handouts. Hand outs not only buy votes but also increase the burden on those in the upper tax brackets.

With enormous pressure now upon them our wise law makers now find themselves having to bite clean off the only hand they've been feeding from. Yes they have painted themselves into the proverbial corner this time.

I have no fear however that the American people will rebel just like they did in the past. We can only hope that neither we nor the terrorists blow us up 1st.

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A well written article and yes it would take a book to enumerate the crimes against humanity these Wall Street Titans have committed. Another crime that Jamie Dimon and JP Morgan Chase have committed that you may not be aware of is what they have done to over 400,000 credit card holders who took advantage of what was advertised and specifically stated as fixed rate life of balance transfer offers. Starting in November less than 2 months after Chase bought Washington Mutual they announced a change in terms on these fixed rate Life of oustanding balance transfers they were adding a $10.00 a month finance charge service fee and raising the required minimum payment from 2% of the outstanding balance to 5% of the outstanding balance. If you check their quarterly reports their credit card services division went from making almost $500 million for the first 3 quarters of 2008 to a $371 million loss in the fourth quarter. Their executives who made this "business" decision are not available to any cardholder to discuss this mess and all their service people are trying to tell us they want to help us and they want to be the "trusted" financial service provider people turn to. What a joke. Just a thought as I just went through my FINRA 101 review course. You know what the whole first hour was devoted to. ETHICS!!!! I wonder where the NASD now FINRA and the SEC were and why aren't these Wall Street Titans required to take ETHICS courses. Somewhere along the way these people seem to have lost them if they ever had any. Oh and you might as well include all the politicians and lawyers and MBAs in needing ETHICS classes. Maybe we might then get some leaders somewhere with a conscious who care about something other than themselves

So now we're going to interfere again by mandating salary caps? That, in turn, will cause unanticipated consequences. Where will the next hole in the dike sprout?

As in the famous exchange between characters in Jurassic Park confirms:

Henry Wu: You're implying that a group composed entirely of female animals will… breed?

Dr. Ian Malcolm: No, I'm simply saying that life, uh… finds a way.