"If it is too big to fail, it is too big to exist"

Someone needs to make this man President, immediately:

This country can no longer afford companies that are too big to fail. If a company is so large that its failure would cause systemic harm to our economy, if it is too big to fail, then it is too big to exist. If it is too big to fail, it is too big to exist.

I'm absolutely serious about this.  In fact I'm so serious that I'm offering a formal prayer to the god or gods in whom I don't believe to please 1) determine the order of succession for the Presidency, and 2) arrange for those in the way to be...uhh...moved...out of the way (*WINK WINK*) until Bernie Sanders' name comes up.  May I suggest one of the lightning-quick, 90% fatal viruses that you, in your infinite and beneficent love, have seen fit to plague us with?  Or maybe lightning itself would be quicker and more impressive.  Hey, you're the god, not me—I won't tell you your business.  But let's get this done, can we?  Amen.

Some other delectable tidbits from this speech:

• "In my view, we need an emergency surtax on those at the very top in order to pay for any losses the Federal Government suffers as a result of efforts to shore up the economy."
• "Both of these crises are tied to the same extreme economic ideology--an ideology which says the Government should play no role--or a minimum role--in protecting consumers; that we should put all of our trust in the honesty and the integrity of the heads of large multinational corporations."
• "This Congress needs to put an end to the radical deregulation that was pushed by Senator Phil Gramm and many other Republicans, and Democrats who went along with that as well. ... what we need to do once again is have the U.S. Government play an important role in protecting the people of this country against the greed of large corporate interests."

Someone tell Ralph Nader that Sanders is stealing his stuff!

You can read it all here.

Comments

[Save the Oocytes]

http://www.counterpunch.org/jacobs03312003.html

http://berniesanderssucks.wordpress.com/2007/08/11/what-would-eugene-debs-think-of-bernie-sanders/

http://www.commondreams.org/kosovo/views/brecher.htm

[John Caruso]

Typical leftist, letting the perfect be the enemy of the good. Would you rather have George Bush as President than Sanders? See, this is why you're personally responsible for 9/11, the attacks on Afghanistan and Iraq, global warming, and the financial meltdown, all of which Al Gore would have prevented.

[Save the Oocytes]

I just remembered I read something somewhere so I wanted to share it.