"Deregulation is the downfall of this country, banks, electric utility, mortgages, etc etc!"
That's precisely what every single Republican ran a campaign on, did while in office, and we're stuck bailing-out the entire mess. Deregulation. They promised to push it and shove it down the world's throat and they did.
Now you're incessent complaints about tying executive bonus package limits to the bailouts granted, setting-up and restructuring Wall Street from scratch, police the Enron's and Morgan Stanley's to accountability, and get America working again because the corporate giants won't...
You're such a functional link to America's failure you seem to be imploding on the insanity of it. What's worse is that instead of accepting your role and any awareness it has to this fiscal depression, you're lobbing one whine after the next about maybe a few of your own dollars might be diverted in helping clean it up. There should be a responsibility test given to all taxpayers and one's like you who don't grock to reality and profitted off the war and other Bush boondoggles should be forced to pay for ALL of this, instead of us innocents who told you so, eight and four years ago.
There's a degree of suffering in all this, just hope you have to deal with at least a lot of jobless American's turmoil and sacrifice.