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President Obama’s Tactic: Hiring the Bad Guys?
By Rrrandy Wurst | March 26, 2009
I was among the joyously hopeful millions who welcomed President Obama to the helm of our nation, at the same time realizing he may not have made it there had Bush/Cheney not been so god-awful cruel and unusually bad.
I’m still glad Obama is leading us, but I maintain my right and duty (read Thomas Jefferson and listen to Thom Hartmann) to be wary of our sitting government and openly critical of those holding down the seats.
Okay, P.M. Carpenter in Buzzflash makes good points in showing what he believes (and I hope) to be Obama’s apparent plan of putting out the fires first, then going after the arsonists. The problem I have is in Obama’s tactic, quickly becoming a habit, of hiring the arsonists to douse the flames. The latest is Gary Gensler, 18 years with Goldman Sachs (again!), being brought aboard to run the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
Are there no other candidates to get us out of this financial mess than those who got us into it, or at least worked for those who got us into it? Reminds me of a town in Georgia near where I spent several years, in which the town council hired criminals into the police department under the belief that it takes a thief to catch a thief. You can imagine how that town was run.
So, I suggest to our president, if he wants to see what New York looks like, don’t cruise on the Goldman Sachs yacht, take The Circle Line with the rest of us commoners.
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Topics: Barack Obama, Financial Industry, Wall Street | 1 Comment »
March 31st, 2009 at 3:04 am
Love your words of wisdom, Randy. I couldn’t agree more. Lets get the hogs out of advisory roles!
Except for you, of course . .