Steve Bartlett opened his mouth. A former Congress-critter who was promoted to be Wall Street's top Washington lobbyist, he is a perfect symbol of the infuriating corrupt coziness between financial elites and lawmakers. Yet Bartlett blithely says:
- "We don't see ourselves as the target of the protests."
After all, he explains, Wall Street "has to be well capitalized and well financed for the economy to recover." Golly, Steve, I think we capitalized you extremely well.
What part of the public's multitrillion-dollar bailout of the Street's elite did you not see?
We the People see every glaring dime of it. And we also see that rather than helping our economy recover, you're now lobbying Congress to kill Wall Street reforms so banksters can grab even more at our expense.