The amendment to break up the "too big to fail" banks was voted down by twenty some odd Democrats who knew that if they went against the banks they would be swift boated in the forthcoming elections. The ruling by the Supremes has, essentially, ended representative government in the United States.
Meanwhile, the actions or inactions of government and the oil barons have insured an extension of the depression by putting millions of people who subsisted off the gulf of Mexico into the unemployment lines.
At a time when we disparately need government control of monetary policy and control of the value of the currency we have lost that control.
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