Oh how well I get exactly what you are saying. I have done a couple of rants on here about lobbyists. I sometimes say mean things I guess. You know like, "As long as all those lobbyists are in DC sloppin' the hogs, the average American cannot be heard."

I think I also ranted one time long ago about my impossible dream of seeing term limitations on Congress. Let's see. . .voting it in for themselves. . .throwing themselves out of that nice cozy bed they have crawled into. Yeah, that will happen.

Why did trickle down economics have to turn into a real hosing of average Americans?

I do not have some great in depth knowledge of trickle down econ, but the theory makes sense to me I think. But all I have seen lately is nothing more than Congress lifting its hind leg on the American people.

I have liked those tax cuts a lot. I fear their expiration. Coming soon. Did that Congress pacify those of us who voted them in into not watching?

I am a woman scorned. Morphing hurts.

And it is 7:00 AM and here I am back in the kitchen looking for heat so it seems. Those typing fingers of mine that I thought I had chewed off, rather than type political stuff, seem to have grown back. Uh oh.

Like I said, Sam, I know all about following the money. I get that part.

But I really am looking for a little step by step explanation of how conditions exist that allowed those bad lenders to pillage and plunder.

I was the girl in grade school long ago who actually read her big orange social studies book, the one with just a few grainy black and white pictures. Those late 1950's social studies books. There I would sit, wearing my cateye glasses, reading about laws and stuff. (Well, sometimes in those days, I had to run and hide from my mother who was always trying to give me one of those home permanents to complete my glamorous look.) But I really do remember actually reading that big old ugly social studies book. I was a nerd before nerd was a word. And I remember reading something about how laws protected us from stuff happening that should not happen.

My question above in this thread is a serious one. And I really do hope someone here who gets it will take the time to explain it.

Why did this happen? I get that part.

I want an explanation of How? I am looking for the Cliff's Notes version, but I still want to know. I have a need to understand stuff. Still. Even though I no longer have those cateye glasses.

I will leave this, for now, with that favorite quote of mine. I still do not know who said it. And I still wish I had.

"Unrestrained greed is not only bad morals, it's bad economics."

And when I look back in here later, I really do hope to find an answer to that question I asked here in this thread yesterrday afternoon. I want to read an explanation of the specific conditions that exist that allowed this mess to happen.

How did this happen?

I am just looking to be educated.

Boomer in the Morning