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Originally Posted by Kiopa_Matt
Again, it's totally up to who's writing the laws. You can't solely blame Bush, but his administration was very much for the philosophy of deregulation, which created this mess. Obama on the other hand is the opposite side of the spectrum, so I have no problem with him being in power for another 4 years.
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We're mostly agreeing here, but to say Obama's on the opposite side of the spectrum would be inaccurate. If you look at his actual record (not the ficticious record the right-wing screamers made up lol), you'll see a business-friendly centrist.
If he was really on the opposite side of the spectrum, we would have already seen criminal prosecutions of numerous high-level executives. Plenty of other examples, but there ya go.
And yeah, you can't totally blame Bush or any other president. Clinton signed the piece of paper that repealed Glass-Steagall (under huge pressure from the banks).
This stuff is above politics. The US has been being whored out in a bipartisan fashion for 35 years.