America Coddles Its Crooks And Con Artists
By Matt Towery
January 10, 2008
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Do these people not realize that we're talking about real money? Obviously not. Instead, they've collectively been coddled and treated as special breeds, instead of like the financial curs they are.
We've been scammed. Our national treasury has been looted. Our justice system has been exposed as a joke. And the trail of tears -- financial and personal losses -- just gets longer and wetter.
I supported the idea of the first bailout of financial institutions. Not because I trusted them, but because I knew another week's worth of panic would have left them with no stock value, and thus no capital. The result would have been a decimation of our economy.
But everything about the way we have dealt with these "untouchable" people and institutions -- letting Madoff carry on as usual, letting banks hoard the gifted cash and letting Chrysler fudge the facts -- makes me sick. I hope we can get every last one of these rotten scoundrels.
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Matt Towery served as the chairman of former Speaker Newt Gingrich's political organization from 1992 until Gingrich left Congress. He is a former Georgia state representative, the author of several books and currently heads the polling and political information firm InsiderAdvantage.
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