Punch and Judy, Pontius Pilate and the US dollar

" People like Robert Reich may say that Obama should take on the bankers, but Obama is where he is because the bankers have put him in his seat. Legislation like the Glass-Steagall act and initiatives like the Pecora commission are testament not only to the fact that the people involved in them in the 1930’s were much braver and principled than today's politicians, they are also painful reminders of the increase in political power the rich have managed to wrestle from the hands of the people over the past 75 years. One would have to be even braver to try and fight the system in the present time, and there is no one to do it."