Jeffrey Schott » United States Senate http://jeffreyschott.com Candidate for Pennsylvania's Eighth U.S. Congressional District Wed, 27 Oct 2010 19:39:22 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 Real Financial Reform http://jeffreyschott.com/index.php/2010/04/real-financial-reform/ http://jeffreyschott.com/index.php/2010/04/real-financial-reform/#comments Wed, 28 Apr 2010 23:14:09 +0000 Jeff http://jeffreyschott.com/?p=392 House and Senate representatives, please stop the nonsense already and address the real reasons for our financial dilemma.  Instead of building a $30/billion dollar “bailout fund” (that’s what it really is) and looking for ways to control businesses that are too big to fail,   why not consider:

  • Letting them fail.  If we let Goldman Sachs, AIG, etc. fail, we wouldn’t need to be worrying about regulating them now.  They wouldn’t be pulling in huge bonuses, once again, we wouldn’t need a $30/billion bailout insurance fund for them.
  • Stop taking over private businesses.  If GM were allowed to fail, they wouldn’t have needed new government loans to pay off their original government loans just to have a commercial making look like they’ve really changed anything.  If GM failed, FORD (who just recorded a huge profit), might be doing even better.
  • Fix the SEC.  Maybe instead of watching porn on the Internet, maybe they could have been checking to see if Madoff was actually making any trades, and perhaps they could have seen that these “too big to fail firms” had no idea of what garbage they were buying and selling
  • Hold Barney Frank and his committee accountable.   Haul him in to a hearing and ask him why he kept pushing for mortgages people couldn’t afford and had no idea that the bubble would burst.
  • Hold Chris Doddand his banking committee accountable.  Haul him in to a hearing and ask him what the heck his Banking committee was doing while all this was going on (besides getting campaign donations and sweetheart financing deals for themselves).
  • Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac really dropped the ball.  They used the taxpayers money to guarantee all these bad mortgages.

These are the real root causes of our financial problems.   Creating new government agencies is not going to solve the problem.  Fixing or eliminating the current ones could.

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…the law may “remove members of Congress and Congressional staff” from their current coverage, in the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program, before any alternatives are available.

This is further evidence of how far things have gotten out of control and how we need to vote in all new representatives.

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