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To: quehubo who wrote (105291)	3/1/2009 10:31:21 PM
From: Cogito	Respond to of 540924

>>It certainly appears the politicians in government should direct more effort prosecuting their crooked donors in the finance industry than busting down doors of pot smokers.<< Quehubo - As we used to say back in the sixties, right on. - Allen

To: quehubo who wrote (105291)	3/1/2009 10:38:22 PM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 540924

It certainly appears the politicians in government should direct more effort prosecuting their crooked donors If and when that ever starts happening in Washington, I will truly believe that change has come. In this instance it was more likely that mid-level political appointees at SEC got the early reports and shut it down. In some cases, office directors, deputy assistant secretaries and assistant secretaries wield enormous influence in making sure that certain things get buried and die in the bureaucracy, regardless of merit if the appointees have an ideological objection to proceeding. In this and other cases, the ideological imperative trumped common sense and now thousands of people are bearing the burden of billions of dollars lost overnight. Yet we still hear a drumbeat call for smaller government from some. That I just don't get. But I'm not an ideologue by nature so that's no big surprise.