“And so I decided to act and act boldly. It turns out that there’s a lot of interlinks throughout the financial system. The system had grown to a point where a lot of people were dependent upon each other, and that the collapse of one part of the system wouldn’t just affect a part of the financial markets; it would affect the average citizen — and how. Well, it affect their capacity to borrow money to buy a house or to finance a college loan. It affect the ability of a small business to get credit. . . .
Um ok did anyone catch a key phrase above? How about the “It turns out….” UHHH, ya think? It turns out that you are an idiot. It turns out that you don’t think the American people are as smart as you. It turns out that (fill in the blank)
“I asked Hank Paulson — who, by the way, in my judgment, is doing a fabulous job; he’s got a lot of credibility and he’s working, and his team are working hard, as are the people at the Fed and the SEC — I said, what’s it going to take to make sure Main Street doesn’t get affected by the policies of Wall Street? And this is what they came up with, and this is big ticket, because it’s a big problem. .
Does anyone notice how during a major crisis the President is never the face put out by the administration? The guy has taken 2 questions people! 2 FUCKING QUESTIONS SINCE THIS PROBLEM HAS HAPPENED!!!!! HEELLLOOOOOOOOOOOOO 2 QUESTIONS!? We are about to give this guy 700,000,000,000 and he hasn’t had a press conference to answer questions….