Obama: "We want our money back"

Comments from the Huffpo article:

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•  Next to perhaps Jeff Sessions, Michael Steele is the least hip, un-funkiest guy on the planet. When he tries to act tough and threatening, he's about as rough looking as Michael Jackson swinging a knife in the "Bad" video. Michael Steele is as un-hip as Tupperware, Wal-Mart, or Dancing with the Stars. He's got less soul than Pat Boone on acid. Between him and Sarah Palin, they've given new meaning to lameness in American intellect and the ability of the worst of the worst and the d*umbest of the d*umb to miraculously rise to positions of prominence

The citizens can demand accountability in their government officials through the ballot box: don't like what one group is doing... elect someone else. That's the American way, a representative democracy.

There are two ways to demand accountability from private corporations: don't do any business with them, or, in the case of these privately-held shareholder-owned firms that accepted taxpayer funds to prevent them from collapsing, make sure they become accountable not only to shareholders of record, but also to the public at large, without whom they would have ended up in bankruptcy court. We CAN have accountability to both shareholders and the public good at the same time. Our corporate boards need to remember that.