Rep. Cummings of Baltimore, this guy is criminally uneducated, pandering to emotions rather than scrutinizing the questioner. After the first round of questioning, it became apparent that the whole testimony was nothing but a charade masqueraded by the officials to bluster and appear as if they are caustically fighting for the "average" citizen. They went on and on with specific examples of how their constituents are suffering and sophomorically dallying around trivial matters of financial market while entirely avoiding asking any meaningful question from Kashkari. I watched Kashkari's eyes popping out in disbelief that how these buffoons are not even bothering asking him any pertinent question what so ever only to condescend him with snide array of misplaced rage.

This obsession by our leaders to keep homeowners in their home will mark the end of whatever is left in this country resembling prudence and morality. I support saving all homeowners not just the irresponsible 3 million living in Mcmansions.

Congress and Sheila Bair's obsession with this spend-only bailout rewards the reckless and punishes the prudent. Consider the lesson it imparts to promote bailouts to the reckless. City by city, neighborhood by neighborhood, people who live beneath their means and manage money carefully will see more careless neighbors supported by federal decree. And what about the 30 percent of this nation who were smart enough to rent? Or how about the large percentage of us who gave plenty of warnings to these same people the government now wants to redistribute my taxes to so they can stay in a house twice the size the home I live in. The backlash to the 700 B bailout package was not only because of the bailout of wall street but also the bailout of the reckless homeowners and their relentless ATM / HELOC spending. As it is now these people can live in their home for over a year rent free while they find a home they should have been living in from the start.

We are becoming a nation of people who feel it is not only okay but justified to cheat, lie, and swindle each other and the rest of the population. Personal responsibility is discouraged by the government and the mainstream media. Our nation is eating ourselves from within just to keep a facade of prosperity. Hope is being replaced by anger and desperation. Welcome to the new dawn.

I am watching Brahminist-Hindus going ga-ga over their compadre Neil Kashkari getting catapulting to Treasury - just as they were delirious with the appointment of Vikram Pandit as Citigroup CEO. But are Americans aware of the very elitist/fascist caste-ridden social values of these Brahminists and how they have been looting and pillaging India?

Probably not, because they get their information from this same narrow minority of Indians in western countries. The Brahminist establishment has monopolized India’s top educational institutions (IITs) which supply 99% of “Indian” students to U.S. universities (while being less than 5% in Indians) who then join US companies and CEOs. After assuming state power in 1947, Brahminist communities (8% of Hindus: Brahmin, Bania, Lala castes) have done very well in India at the expense of the rest by systematically corrupting, monopolizing and looting all state institutions set up by the British. They are motivated by delusional historical ideologies in which Brahminist-Hindus fancy themselves as some perpetual ruling-class of India (“highest castes”) despite that fact that the objective historical record bears witness to mostly non-Brahminist rule in the subcontinent over the past 2500 years (e.g. Buddhism, Muslim, Sikh) and various new influxes of peoples and cultures such as the Sakas (Indo-Scythians), Huns, Moguls and Pathans. These groups and their descendents created most of the known “Indian” empires, including the three Buddhist empires of the Satraps, Kushanas and Virkas from 300BC-800AD; the Muslim empires of the Ghaznis, Lodhis, Mughals (10-18 century AD); and Sikh, Rajput, Jat and Maratha rule before the British arrival in the 19th century.

Given the degenerate, corrupt and criminalized nature of their beloved Bharat’s legal and administrative system, I do not believe that Americans wish to welcome their Manuite values and contributions here. They have already acquired quite a reach in the U.S. media, university system and wall street.