TBTF

WoW! 

And nobody goes to jail, get's fired or loses out on a bonus check.

I see what you did there.

I genuinely wonder what the solution for crap like this is.  I'm seriously wondering if the DoJ needs to be split out from under the President.  Put in place a whole new body (call it the 4th branch of government) that gives the AG from each state an equal vote to pursue legal action on behalf of the federal government.  It's blatantly obvious that nobody in power from either party will ever be held legally accountable when they break the law.

It's so frustrating.

I have always been unaffiliated, but I finally registered Libertarian. I'll never vote for another (R) or (D) again.

I'm torn on Johnson. I agree with him on pretty much everything... but under the GOP, he will not acomplish a thing. The TEA party was assimilated, and I do not see the Libertarians taking over the GOP. I have no interest at all in a "rebranded" GOP with Johson as a figure head.

Obama got elected on the financial meltdown, and then promptly filled his cabinet with Wall Street... ya, that should get the job done.

I've always been a registered Republican and I feel much the same way.  I've thought about registering Libertarian but the real elections here in Nebraska are in the primaries.  So if I was registered Libertarian I wouldn't get to vote out the worser (is that a word) Republicans.

I won't say I'll never vote R again, because I am intrigued by Both Rand Paul and Ted Cruz.  Yes they are R's but I'd say they're more Libertarian than Republican.  If they somehow managed to get through the primaries (I know, I can dream) then I feel they'd be very strong contenders to win and enact some change (how ever small it may be).

They were fined $7B over the last few years?  Where did that money go?  If you need to ask why nobody is in jail or fired when that much money is being funneled out then you haven't been watching the "war on drugs" the last 2 decades.    Geez....if I could find some folks to rake that much money from every few years I'd make sure they stayed propped up too. 

I just switched from Independent to Librarian also. 

I feel the same way about the D&R,,,,, imo one wants to run towards Socialism/Communism the other is content with walking that direction.

Which reminds me of an old joke about the young bull and the old bull,,,,,, but I prolly shouldn't tell that here. 

The President isn't going to fix anything, and any figure head the party puts up...is put there for that very reason.

It's the Legislature that needs to be fixed. And I do not see the Libertarian party taking over the Legislature. I don't see libertarian minded (R)s taking it over either. We need a much bigger melt down than what we have had for that to happen.... Fortunately, we are well on our way for that.

Ron, Rand and Gary are all Libertarians using the (R) to get elected. They are not going to change the GOP, and for them to accomplish anything, they need 250 more next to them. In the mean time, name recognition and money keeps the incumbent in office even though most Americans say they want term limits... yet every election they do not limit terms... complete silliness.

I'm sorry, but that is complete rubbish. The Feds prosecuted J.P. Morgan and Rockefeller for God's sake! We broke up Ma Bell. We need to break up big oil. We need to break up big finance. And I'm sorry, but when you fill your cabinet with Chase, Morgan and Citi Corp, and then your AG says publicly they are too afraid to prosecute.... what's wrong with that picture?????

A reset is coming. It's a house of cards.

This crap makes me sick.  I have this hypothesis about the destructive effects of what I call the "everybody gets a trophy" mentality that's so prevalent in the US.  We raise our kids to "never fail" so it doesn't hurt their self esteem.  It also builds a sense of entitlement in our youth, that they deserve to be successful no matter how bad they suck.

Fast forward, and now this mentality is becoming more and more prevalent in our politics and in our country.  The economy and businesses can never lose, we HAVE to give them a trophy even when they suck.

Just like in sports, we learn and get better through adversity.  When you get your butt kicked in a game, you go back and work harder to get better.  The same goes with business, if you do something stupid and it hurts your business you learn from it and don't make that mistake again.  That mentality is lacking in today's business world because we can't have a company suffer, what about the "employees".