Quote Originally Posted by 'Tsunami',index.php?page=Thread&postID=143637#post 143637
...... Because CA has the most electoral college votes and members in the congress, what happens in CA eventually happens in the rest of the country.......

.... against my belief that the few should not be allowed to make decisions on the many.
I find this rather funny since the "few" influencing the "many" statement contradicts itself here since the number of votes in the electoral college is directly linked to the population in that state. You have a couple decent points on the current financial market, but there's a lot more to it than that and I think you know it. I don't blame the banks alone for our current financial state, but rather the average idiot (my parents fall into this category) that borrowed more money than they could pay back then defaulted on loans. Maybe they shouldn't have ever been offered the loan, but the blame goes to both parties.