Voters share blame for 2008 Financial Meltdown
Any voter who reelected their incumbent Senator or House Rep in the November 2008 election shares part of the blame for the 2008 Financial Meltdown AND the dysfunctional ineptitude on display as Congress tries to fix the "worst economy since the Great Depression." By continuing to reelect incumbent Congressmen year after year voters have become "enablers" to those addicted to power. When seventy-four percent of Americans disapprove of the job that Congress is doing and then reelect ninety percent of their incumbent Congressmen there is something wrong. When the same Congressional incumbents who got our economy into the current financial mess and did nothing to prevent it from happening are rewarded by voters as those best suited to solve the very problems that they created something is wrong. It is like hiring arsonists to be our firemen, mobsters to be our policemen or Bernie Madoff to be our local bank president. There is nothing wrong with being a political partisan. Having a strong political world view and electting those who share that world view is what makes American politics what it is. However, when unthinking political partisans reelect incumbents year after year without accountability they only have themselves to blame when things go bad. Voters need to cultivate the same disgust and anger for Congress that they do for the institutional and culturally bankrupt Wall Street managers who ran their corporations into the ground, took billions of tax payer bailout dollars, and then gave themselves multi-million dollar bonuses and spa junkets. Main Street voters do not have the power punish or fire corrupt Wall Steet managers but they do have the power to punish an out of control and dysfunctional Congress in 2010. Wake up America!


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