For agents of change, it's politics as usual

In this new world of change, you can forget about responsibility or accountability ever making a return.

It's becoming increasing clear that neither of the two candidates have properly addressed what should happen to those responsible for this economic crisis (while it's true that it's broad, there are still some who had control of the reins). There's a distinct lack of passion for finding methods to promote justice as well. We may have required a giant, $700 billion bailout, but why aren't there names attached to these businesses? Toss these individuals into the limelight and make a spectacle out of them. Discuss plans to introduce legislation that doesn't impose on capitalism, but stops financial disasters and dangerous forms of greed from taking a foothold in businesses. Finally, tell the people that they are responsible for what the United States becomes.

Failure to discipline bad behavior or exert power to establish justice will just cause these practices to continue, or worse-multiply. When pressure is applied, it generally works. Right after the bailout, AIG executives still pushed forward with their plan for a second vacation in California. After news of this story spread, AIG ended up canceling. What changed this? Obviously not the bailout bill, as a section of it doesn't even allow the courts to provide oversight. Had the people of this country been asleep, this would of still happened.

Speaking of more wonderful "changes" in political reform, let's examine Barack Obama's campaign fundraising. It's been reported that there aren't any checks on Obama's online fundraising. To check this, Mathew Mosk of the Washington Post, did a test to see if bogus information would be accepted. It worked, yet there has been little media outcry to this. Why is this? One possible answer is that people do not believe that these fake entries could not possible make up a large portion of the money received. If this is the case, why not release information about these donations so they can be reviewed by the Federal Election Comission?

Let's forget about how much of a percentage these phony donations make up, as arguing about them only spins the true story: they are happening, there's still no way of accounting for them, and Obama has been mum on the issue. Is this the change we want? Even more accountability problems and then a lack of responsibility towards these problems?