Meaning, we're getting shafted, ripped off, bamboozled, flimflammed. It's simply naive (read politically wreckless) to believe assertions by the administration that they are the agents of change while insisting on executing this change with the same people who've implemented the same policies that got us in this mess in the same place.
Random thoughts from a concerned citizen.
The current economic crisis (causes and dimension), to the degree that this uneducated individual understands it, is the result of uncontrolled, unregulated capitalist greed.
If you were in the halls of power (economic or political) you knew what was going on -- the subprime game, the selling of decomposing (now toxic) assets, the orgy of million dollar bonuses, the whole thing. If you didn't know about it, republican or democrat, banker, stock trader or politician, you were simply too stupid; or not powerful enough.
Shit, even I knew about it and my sources of knowledge don't go further than the online landscape.
Those people who claim "we didn't know" for some reason remind of those who say, "But we believed Saddam had weapons of mass destruction." Need I say more!!!
Now President Obama, elected to bring in change, is asking some of the people who broke the system to fix it. That's naive. Or dishonest. I prefer to believe it is naive. I prefer to believe that Obama is a man of principles.
In either case, it's given the opposition, Limbaugh, Palin, the Republicans a great argument as it has positioned them as the defenders of the people against corporate greed. Yeah, the Republicans. And it's the Obama team's own doing.
Look at some relationships. Geithner and the financial system. For Dog's sake, he worked for the International Monetary Fund that has bled dry the people (not governments) of the Developing Nations. Look at Dodd and banking (he even got a great mortgage deal from Countrywide). Look at Biden and Delaware laws for credit cards "The Senator from MBNA".
When it comes to capitalist greed, there is no substantial difference between Democrats and Republicans. It's only perception, tone and manner. When push comes to shove, all line up behind the puppeteers: Daddy Bigbucks.
Have we been had? AIGed? Ripped off? Are we so naive to think we actually won the presidency? Let's get serious. Let's understand who we're fighting and what we're fighting for: jobs, security, health care, equal rights, immigration reform a non imperialist militaristic foreign policy, clean energy. And that requires a break from the past.
A brutal fight is taking place in front of our very own eyes. At stake is our future, that of our children, that of our nation. But to prevail we need to demand that Obama breaks with the past. That he cleans house. Get rid of Geithner. Just because a greedy capitalist suddenly claims to be for the people (just because a wolf wears a sheepskin) doesn't put him on our side.
I think Obama should give them Geithner, cut his losses and start anew. And seek his support from we the people who put him there, not the greedy incompetent bastards who broke it in the first place.