Actually, seems to me Barney Frank was making a legitimate point - "Even if we did Glass-Steagall, you'd still have institutions that are too big to fail." That's actually true. Especially with THIS Congress. Look how much the ACA left to be desired - even some people here still tend to hate it because it isn't perfect, didn't go far enough, didn't measure up, wasn't the public option, wasn't single-payer, wasn't this, wasn't that. So screw the whole thing, then? Or let it go through, even this imperfect and this wanting and this lacking, and consider it at least a solid foundation ON WHICH WE CAN BUILD FURTHER?
CRIMINY! It's not an all-or-nothing world. I tend to want to give Barney Frank some benefit of the doubt. Overall - through the years, he's been pretty solid. Now, I happen to think WHATEVER might at least START the conversation is good. If we bring back a Glass-Steagall type measure, at least that's a start back in the right direction (in the truest definition of the word "right" - not the bastardized hijacked version that the radical-wrong has turned it into). And maybe it won't be perfect, but at least let's get the engine started. And we're certainly not going to get anywhere near the kind of legislation we want and need - with THIS Congress. So why can't we at least try to get what we can, NOW, for the sake of at least getting the engine started?
This continued and ever-present insistence on Perfection-Or-BUST will get us nowhere in an Imperfect-Reality world. And I won't live in that bubble any more than I want to live in the Pox Noise-created bubble the bad guys who want only their own myopic white-people's-candy-world insist on living in. I'd rather get one square farther along on the game board than sit on the same square arguing - and not move at all.
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