Regulations are worthless without enforcement, pass all the bills in the world...

[mullard12ax7]

and as long as criminals had a hand in crafting the bills, we remain a corrupt country. We were supposedly a country against torture until it happened and now we're letting all the torturers go. Do you really believe that a country capable of such horror is going to enforce some financial regulations or pass a health care bill instead of a health insurance bill?

The answer is yes, many people really do believe it and I'm tired of explaining it to political hacks with no interest in learning anything.

[spanone]

1. do you think all members of congress and the executive branch are criminals?

[Possumpoint]

3. No, Hell No!

If the laws are structured in such a way that actions or lack there of are permitted, even when illegal to corporations and private individuals, then they aren't criminals.

[emulatorloo]

2. Not everybody shares your dystopic viewpoint

That doesn't make them "political hacks" though

[pampango]

4. Do I think the country is capable of good things as well as bad? Of course. You don't?

I try not to say that Italians never do anything right. Or the Australians. Or the Canadians. If you lived anywhere else, you know that laws are enforced in the US more effectively than in most of the rest of the world. We are hardly perfect at it, but who is?

Why should I believe that Americans are incapable of financial regulation or health care reform? Bad (and some good) things done in the past does not preclude one from doing good things in the future.