The problem that I see America is the complacency, the lack of critical thinking, the laziness to asking provocative questions, the greed’s, etc and the human's natures. Money and power.

-Complacency: Where are the days that Americans actually take part in changing the country, peaceful protests, bus sit in/out, etc? Back when oil was really high, in Burmese, the people actually protest on the street when cost of oil increased 50%. In the US, they have *pray at pumps* for lower price. WTH?

-When the people who asked provocative questions are being called unpatriotic, etc. Since when blindly following a leader is patriotic?

-with regard to the current problem, it's all about money.
Iraq ---> oil ------->money/power.
Banking ------>money/power

When you look at all the agencies they have, FDA, FCC, etc, it's all for the purpose of insure quality. They want good quality for our foods, our flights, etc. They don't want the companies to cut corners where it will affect our health, lives. Take the Melamine Contamination in China for example, why did they do it? Cut corners in order to make more money of course. Remember the Mad cow disease where the health cow being fed with meat from a sick cows? Yes, in order to maximize profit, they fed the cow meats so they grow faster. All that because of money.

So why the so called Republicans really think that SELF-regulations for the banking aka MONEY industry is a good thing? As a matter of fact, they think deregulation = self-regulation of any industries is a good thing Have any of you actually think you can leave the wolves in the hen house and expect the best? History of mankind shows that people actually killed for money and power.
IF people can self-regulate them then they don't need supervisors and managers at the work place.

Have any of you ever think that these tactics could be use to deregulate the industry without actually deregulation.

Let's take the banking industry for example. How about putting the bankers in charge of banking and expect no self-serving interest. How about cutting the budget for the agency that watching the banking industries. Let's assume that it needs 100 millions to hire 100 people to watch the banking industry. Now cut that budget in half. That will cut the staff in half. Half the staff with the same amount of works? Do you think that will lead to less effective/cutting corner on regulation? That's the methods being used before in the Reagan and now in the Bush. That's the method can be used anywhere by any government, companies, etc. Why did they have the saving and Loans bailout crisis? Why did they have the Wall Street collapse of 2008? Because they let the wolves watch the hen house by itself.

CDS credit swaps, etc; they call it swap instead of insurance because they don't want regulations. And without regulations, one can sell that the same suckers 100 times, without the money reserve to pay for rainy days. Insurances are regulated, swap aren't. Greenspan and the people in charge know full-well.

What should they do with con artists that control our lives and our governments? What can they do? PRAY??