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iSpeak: Financial Reform

With financial reform the central issue now for the White House and Congress, what do you think should be the consequences for the big bankers and Wall Street tycoons who commit fraud and otherwise rip off working people?

These big bankers and Wall St tycoons have not known what real need is. So, the tables should be turned around on them. These individuals should all get sued. The only thing they believe in is money which they get by fraud and ripping off the working class. The federal government should bring about law suits and freeze their bank accounts and assets.Then they would really know the harm they are doing to the hard working citizens who do their part in contributing to the progress in the economy.

Maria Pelaez
Payroll analyst
1199SEIU Family of Funds
New York City
I have absolutely no faith in the government's ability to control the indiscretions of Wall Street. They should go to jail like everyone else and their financial intuitions should lose their license.

Pearl Meyers
Member service generalist
1199SEIU Training & Employment Funds
New York City   
 
The current laws should be enforced and the guilty punished. This administration does not serve anyone by inciting a class war. The guilty should include Barney Frank and Chris Dodd who looked the other way for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. That is what caused the banking crisis and the newly proposed senate bill excludes them. A lot of the people who lost large sums of money also made extremely large sums by investing in Wall Street and not asking any questions.

Catherine Burns
RN
Crouse Hospital
Syracuse, NY
State: NY
They should pay back every stolen cent, their assets should be liquidated. As well, they should render community service and do "hard time"--
not federal country club time.

Olga Moreno-Hernandez
Secretary
Metropolitan Hospital
New York City

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