Oh I agree there'll be plenty of corruption - there always is.

But there's something I just thought of yesterday. How many mayors, governors, representatives, etc are caught and sent to prison? A lot - and that undermines our confidence in government.

How many businessmen went to jail for ruining the economy? What AIG executives went to jail? Was the President of BofA led out for the 'perp walk'?

We got Bernie Madoff - one (huge) Ponzi schemer. We got some of his associates.

The criminals who lost a trillion dollars still ahve their jobs.

At least the government forced out the GM and Chrysler management in THEIR bailouts. Isn't that the "Republican" way - if you take our aid, you play by our rules? Except TARP doesn't seem to have worked out like that - despite the fact that the common consumer can at least understand what GM and Chrysler produces. Understand what AIG does requires a postgraduate degree in some cases. Heck, I worked in the industry for Fidelity Investments and Putnam Investments and *I* certainly don't understand it all.

Seems to me we have a better chance of weeding out the bad apples in the public sector.