Arianna Huffington: Why the Fight for Financial Reform Needs to Get Much More Personal
When it comes to the fight over financial reform, Democrats are making the same mistake they did with health care: failing to put the effect reform would have on the lives of real Americans front and center. This is a big-time blunder. The administration needs to make it clear: we don't need to overhaul our financial system because the Wall Street sandbox has gotten a little messy, and bank CEO bonuses have gotten too big. We need financial reform because of the enormous human suffering -- millions of battered and broken lives -- our current system has caused. Suffering that continues as the ins and outs of reform legislation are being debated. But the human element is once again getting short shrift.
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We all need to stay in regular contact with our congressmen and other elected officials to let them know that there job is to represent us, their constituents. They obviously don't know how difficult it is for the average citizen and that is why the changes aren't happening. The media is also to blame. They need to report on what's happening to average people, not regurgitate what the political spindoctors tell them.