Anonymous,

The irony is that Obama has been the banker's and hedge fund manager's guy, I think trumping Bush. Bush was operating in a milieu in which everyone was happy to go along with the deregulation, and lack of enforcement. But Obama managed to blunt the universal anger that had americans waving their pitchforks and heating up barrels of tars; he gave the banks almost everything they wanted, including almost all the seats at all the tables in his administration, while giving the american people almost nothing. You'd have thought that in the climate of rage after the meltdown we'd have gotten New Deal-like reforms - indeed, better than New Deal, since Roosevelt didn't go far enough either, didn't borrow and spend enough, as the economy in the 30's technically came out of recession fairly early, but unemployment remained intractable for years. The fact is nothing would help this economy more than slapping a huge tax on the top 1 or 2% of earners in this country, a somewhat smaller hit on the next level down, until the tax disappears entirely at about 160k, and then investing that money in American infrastructure, environmental restoration, etc. i keep reading comments here and there about how grateful people are to the wealthy, like the guy who didn't mind seeing wealthy driving big BMW and Mercedes because the advances those makers made eventually trickled down to his honda accura. I'm not kidding, someone actually wrote that.

Hello!

I listen to your show on KBBI AM. Whenever I feel at all hopeful about the situation we face all I need to do is listen to your program to return to a fatalistic view of the human race and our collective future. I'm not sure if this is your objective - but you are VERY good at it. Thanks so much.

Dave Aplin
Homer, Alaska.

concerning gary aguirre's story with corporations and the feds dancing cheek to jowl with one another it's a wonder that Barack Obama was elected one feels sometimes that things are allowed to happen. I truly believed for a while that Bush would find a way to stay in office. If they can get a man fired for doing his job, what awaits us down the road? I hate to invoke "1984", but the current political climate may find us in the future all gathered in a hall screaming at our "enemies" on a wall size TV screen,conditioned to hate. At best, we seem to be in a sort of feudal society where the elite cannot be touched and those without power are at the mercy of the system. and who do they blame? Obama, the unions, liberals all demonized by the right wing screamers. Despite the internet, google and facebook, we may be heading for a technologically advanced but backward society akin to the middle ages, the dark ages.