Jonesy, don't you find it odd that the Attorney General for the State of New York (Eliot Spitzer) does a much better job of hunting down and either prosecuting or getting $$ fines from Wall Street crooks, while the designated govt. branch (the SEC) that should be doing the heavy lifting looks on with the see no evil attitude?
And Spitzer is charged with a hell of a lot more than chasing down Wall Street crooks.
oag.state.ny.us
Spitzer for president??
We now have regulatory agencies that should protect US, the average citizen, and what they have morphed into are more for the protection of the very industries they should, under the law, be regulating.
And we get to pay for all of it!!
Remember Mary Schiavo, who was the Inspector General for the FAA?
She was on target with the security & safety problems with US airlines, and we did she get for looking out for the public interest and actually doing her job?
planesafe.org
baumhedlundlaw.com
Determined to keep the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) accountable to the public, Schiavo, 46, led an investigation into security at the nation's airports in 1992 and 1993. Her employees, armed with guns, knives, grenades and fake bombs, got through 75 percent of the time. At a congressional hearing to address what she'd uncovered, the FAA promised to fix the breaches. But when Schiavo repeated her investigation in 1995 and 1996 there were still significant security lapses.
The FAA "went into overdrive to try to get the report classified," Schiavo alleges. |
