As I observe all the absurdities and shenanigans going on in Washington to save the very people and organizations that created the financial catastrophe we are now in it seems to me as though we have a situation analgous to the crew of the Titantic making sure it saved itself and letting all of the passengers just fend for themselves.  How would history have judged that crew had they operated thusly?  Pretty poorly I imagine.

And so it is for our political leaders of BOTH parties as they flail about desperately seeking ways to save the culprits who caused the financial melt down while letting the average American family continue to suffer and in some cases go under for the last time.  Foreclosures are rampant across the country and yet the only voice for effective direct relief for homeowners is the woman who runs the FDIC.  I hear few if any Democrats, and certainly no one in the Obama coterie, is clamoring for direct relief for homeowners.  All we hear Democrats offering is a public works program which won't have any immediate impact on the average person and extension of unemployment benefits.  Everyone in Washington is so busy servicing the powerful and wealthy as they have been doing these past 40 years they hardly even remember to worry about the little people.

Seems they are unaware that while the "crisis" for the well-heeled started just a couple of months ago, the crisis for the average American family has been going on for 30 plus years with staqnant wages, job losses, the decline in educational quality, lack of reliable health benefits and so on.  I wish the inside the beltway crowd of Democrats would start responding primarily to the needs of the people instead of just the needs of the rich people.  In my opinion, if they don't shift their emphasis very soon, they will miss the mark entirely and won't remain in power for a terribly long time.