Reply #50: We have antitrust laws. They should be enforced.

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We have securities laws. Congress should have been watching this. Yet Congress was caught by surprise when Paulson demanded the passage of his original TARP proposal.

Let's don't forget that Obama needs first and foremost to prosecute the crimes of the members of the Bush administration.

Don't take that off the table.

Have you ever had mold in your refrigerator? You have to get rid of the sources of the mold. You can't just toss out yesterday's leftover sandwich and leave the moldy spaghetti from last year.

This laissez-faire attitude toward corruption, greed and crime in high places got started under Reagan, the first Bush administration and, most recently, under GWB. Let's get rid of the old mold in our refrigerator. Let's take out the lasagna that we put in there 8 years ago. I know it looks like soft cheese, but if we leave it in place, everything we put in the refrigerator will spoil. There will be no trust.