Posting your opinion is all well but there's no need for "trojan horse" comments.

I can see that using "Trojan Horse" is a bit much. I don't particularly care that Volcker endorsed Obama, and actually, I rather reluctantly agree that it's not an entirely bad thing that "the economic crowd" is not freaking over the possibility of an Obama candidacy and presidency.

And, furthermore, I recognize that I am much more of an anti-Wall Street radical that Bonddad and most of the rest of you are ever going to be.

But it is simply unconscionable that anyone should believe or state that Volcker did well by the country. Furthermore, my position is that at this time, the financial system, which encompasses much more than Wall Street, is the bane and the enemy American business and real industrial capitalism. And if people can't be made to understand that, then I think the country is doomed to a slow, increasingly painful decline in living standards. I believe that if the power of Wall Street were destroyed, and capital allowed to flow to real business and entrepreneurs, that the United States could avoid that decline by creating and bringing to market the technologies and products required for a modern economy based on alternative energies.

it contains accusations about another poster unsupported by any factual evidence and this diary amounts to one long personal attack.

Look, I disagree with Bonddad a lot too.  But there is no doubt that he is well within the democratic tent.  His economic worldview is one that champions the middle and working class.  He's had literally dozens of diaries taking on RW economic talking points.

Bonddad thinks a balanced budget is critical to keeping interest rates low, which in turn are critical to the economy not being choked by billions of debt owed to rich plutocrats and foreign governments.  That, in my book, is a responsible democratic position.

I also appreciate William Greider, and I do think this Fed (especially under Greenspan) has been way too in cahoots with Wall Street investment houses and the Ayn Randian-refusal to stop the runaway train of predatory loans that were a critical enabler of the housing bubble.

There is room for Robert Rubin, Paul Krugman and Robert Reich within the democratic tent.  It's a question of balancing progressive economic programs with budget responsibility.  I don't have a problem with that.  If taking on former Rockefeller/Eisenhower Republicans into the tent is what gives us a generation-long governing majority, I say GO FOR IT!

I've given you a tip and a rec, because it's a good thing to point out that, despite his big fan club, bonddad isn't God.  As I'm sure he himself would admit.

Cheers.