“Even banks are refusing to loan other banks...We need bottom-up economic reform”-Robert Reich
Wise words indeed.  The test period has run its course on trickle-down economics and the result is rolling in right before our eyes.  The cancer in our economy is no longer just the rebellious teenage version of “Reaganomics” We let it fester, and now we have a legal-aged, bearded tumor eating away at our gut. 
What has been going on on Wall Street with these giant investment firms and insurance companies has simply been fraud!  It is and has been completely out of control, with no end in sight.  Even now, after greasing their filthy blue-blood palms with our hard earned, red blood money, they continue to gouge the pie and cry hungry.  Instead of going to jail for deceptive business practices, performed in new, innovative, unprecedented ways, they are getting bankrolled by the very people they have taken advantage of.  The American people at large are clearly the Pawns in this debacle, and all our governments can do to contribute, is serve as pimps.
Enough with the politicians all trying to score points by saying they’re going to “fix Washington”  “Washington is broken.”  These are empty, cop-out catch phrases which show weakness and an absence of true grasp.  Why not say what it is.  “Our federal government is broken.”  “I’m going to fix our federal government.”  Well, they don’t say the latter because such claims would bear real responsibility and something to point to when the promises aren’t kept.  Saying Washington is broken means nothing.  When they leave office and our government is still broken, over-run by lobbyists and special interests, Washington remains, just a place.  (follow the entire "Crisis of Confidence" series @ mindofdemus.Live!)