Democrats have only themselves to blame. The party line stemming from the Obama cover-up campaign is to not acknowledge the wrath and pain foreclosures and evictions have played, or to point the finger at the Wall Street bank fraud that pillaged Trillion$ from pension and retirement funds for fear the public will get wind that their pension and retirement funds are gone before the election.

The Democrats have failed to exploit the need for government regulation in the securities market. They have allowed Bill Clinton to continue to tout his de-regulation and repeal of Glass Steagal as good for the economy - which is total BS. By their silence and "party line" they have caused Americans to doubt that the party of Democracy is anything but the left-er wing of the Republicans - all bought and paid for by the Wall Street banks.

Chris Whalen, a leading financial economist, is right. This current Congress and administration has allowed the Wall Street banksters to get off without arrests and convictions and to continue their trading tricks at the peril of the American public and the world.

Are there better choices? Certainly not with the current media darlings and their "Wag the Dog" tactics. We're in for another 6-10 years of the same Depression if either of the top two candidates and the current Congress remain in office.

No, things are not looking up yet, and won't ... at least until we sheeple get off of the little fires and tackle the root problem: corrupt politicians. Both R's and D's, and the laws they pass depends on the highest in bribe money. ONLY public funding of campaigns and ONLY a 100% turnover in November will get us there. Live with it, or FIX it!

It's not obvious to me that this is anything but a bigger flock of chickens coming home to roost, that is, the inevitable demise of a world economy driven by the manufacture and sale of irrelevant gadgets.

Cars and iPads have nothing to do with the natural laws that put us here and keep us here. The closest meeting between nature and civilization that we have is agriculture.

Some smart young folks have cast their lot with farming and selling their goods at the farmers' markets. One possible outcome of all these goings on these days is that the smart ones will own the farms, and the rest of us will work for them.

Scheer is one of the few commentators on the present scene who speaks the truth, and doesn't try to find excuses for the way our government representatives have handled this crisis. The Wall St. gang has been aided and abetted by the hard-line conservatives, mostly Republican but with some Democrats, who want the government to keep its hands off its precious right to accumulate wealth any way they want, even at the off chance that the public might be harmed. As Willard Romney has stated so many times, being wealthy, successfully making money, is THE important goal of every American. Greed is a more important motivator than altruism. We are and have been in a depression, damn close to the intensity of the so-called Great Depression. And the only solution most of our leaders offer is cut back, give the funding to private interests because they create jobs...not that many can be seen on the horizon. The Republicans in the 1930s fought the same battle and won many of those battles against the "New Deal" as well. World War II probably did more to end that depression but today we are an empire in search for an empire of oil and gas and we have already been involved in two unprovoked wars. Everyone cries out against GOVERNMENT SPENDING but that is what kept this nation from going completely under in 1933: WPA, CCC, banking holidays, and the ultimately discredited ERA. Not much of those programs being proposed today.