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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (212683)	7/27/2009 1:31:05 PM
From: GST	Respond to of 306849

It takes more than griping to make things better. I too feel deeply bitter and angry about the way the financial mess has been handled. I believe that when you act like a crook you should expect to be treated like a crook. Financial services and government conspired to defraud the American people on a scale that is hard to fathom -- and they seem to be getting away with it. This leaves me profoundly angry and discouraged about the state of the union. But we have responsibilities to discharge as well -- we should seek the truth, but we need to do more than gripe. We need to speak about the things that need to be done. We have a new President -- it is too early for me to conclude that he is utterly corrupt. It is not too early for me to conclude that he has been utterly ineffective at bringing justice to the financial world. But I am as yet not prepared to write him off as a human being -- far from it. Even Bush, for whom I have nothing good to say, did at least a few honorable things: In Africa he helped blunt the advance of AIDs and by not pardoning Libby, whom he correctly concluded to be a lying crook.