It's the private sector stupid!

Can we stop focusing our anger at our government for the solutions they pass to fix what the private sector messed up in the first place? You may not like the bailouts, the big loans, or the government funded mortgage refinancing but our government did all of these things to save jobs and prevent a depression. Your house may be worth less now than two years ago but what value it does have can be directly attributed to the fixes offered by the government. We should harness all of this anger and focus it on the true culprits of the recession - big business. We need to stop defending the free market so much that it makes us blind to its failings. Over the last decade big business has proved time and again that it needs regulations to keep the public safe. Just ask your average Enron employee, who was planning on using the value of his Enron stocks to retire, about the merits of government involvement in business. Big business doesn't care about the common good; they care about the good of its common stock. Our government is our voice and attacking it only quiets your own interests.