But that's it in a nutshell Don....the system needs GROWTH, most people knew there was something wrong, but as long as the funny money kept rolling in nobody cared.....we can't blame it all on the bankers .....regulation kills Capitalism and most of us wanted the sick man to keep breathing.
Well now we've got the worlds most expensive corpse on our hands and our children and grandchildren will pay for the funeral.

In the UK, a few thousand young kids with no future went on the rampage...stole some clothes and electrical goods...some even brought them back the next day, they received very severe prison sentences for relatively minor crimes....yet as you say the people who looted fortunes got off Scot free......So much for "liberal" equality.