Good Luck Mr. President.

This is the kind of thing that really makes me mad. Seriously? Are they for real? Dear Patricia, Can you believe that, only four years after Wall Street and the Big Banks brought our economy to its knees, many of those same bank CEOs are helping to shape policy at the Federal Reserve? Talk about the fox guarding the hen house. These executives are serving as directors of the very same Federal Reserve that bailed them out in 2008 -- and is supposed to regulate them today. It's unbelievable, and we've got to do everything we can to end these outrageous conflicts of interest. Please join us, and our friends at Democracy for America, to become a citizen co-sponsor of the Federal Reserve Independence Act -- and help us end these huge conflicts of interest at the Fed! The General Accounting Office has detailed instance after instance of top executives of financial institutions and corporations who could have used their influence as Federal Reserve directors to financially benefit their firms -- including board members who were affiliated with banks and companies that received near-zero-interest emergency loans from the Federal Reserve during the financial crisis. The American people deserve a Federal Reserve that is truly independent from the financial institutions it supervises and oversees. That’s why our Federal Reserve Independence Act would: • Prohibit banking executives or employees of companies regulated by the Fed from serving on the Federal Reserve’s board of directors; • Prohibit the banking industry from choosing any members of the Federal Reserve’s board of directors; and • Prohibit Fed employees or board members from owning stock or investing in companies that the Fed regulates, supervises or oversees with absolutely no exceptions. Americans deserve a Federal Reserve that works for them, not just the top one percent. Congress needs to pass the Federal Reserve Independence Act -- and you can help us do it.Please stand with us to end these outrageous conflicts of interest and reform the Federal Reserve by becoming a citizen co-sponsor of the Federal Reserve Independence Act today! It is time for change at the Fed -- real change. Thank you for joining us and helping to make that change happen. Sincerely, Bernie Sanders and Barbara Boxer U.S. Senators

The people in the Fed, appointed by Bush, kept in office by President Obama. The time for change was January 2009. The President had the power to clean house, but for some mysterious Wall Street reason he didn't. I love Bernie Saunders, but this email won't change anything. At least he didn't ask for money. I also liked this article, Roberto Unger, Obama's Former Harvard Law School Professor, Says The President 'Must Be Defeated'

I'm not sure what motivated his professor to speak out, but I liked this, "the Democratic Party proposes no new direction." "Give the bond markets what they want, bail out the reckless so long as they are also rich, use fiscal and monetary stimulus to make up for the absence of any consequential broadening of economic and educational opportunity, sweeten the pill of disempowerment with a touch of tax fairness, even though the effect of any such tax reform is sure to be modest," he said. "This is less a project than it is an abdication." The professor went on to list his complaints: "His policy is financial confidence and food stamps." "He has spent trillions of dollars to rescue the moneyed interests and left workers and homeowners to their own devices." "He has delivered the politics of democracy to the rule of money." "He has disguised his surrender with an empty appeal to tax justice." "He has reduced justice to charity." "He has subordinated the broadening of economic and educational opportunity to the important but secondary issue of access to health care in the mistaken belief that he would be spared a fight.  "He has evoked a politics of handholding, but no one changes the world without a struggle."  That pretty much sums it up for me. I talk to a lot of people who voted for the President, they are so disillusioned that they are not going to vote at all. I don't blame them.Just to add insult to injury, read this and weep. This PDF shows the President intends to break more promises from 2008. Why didn't he at least say he had no intention of carrying out his platform and save me the waste of time voting for him? http://www.citizenstrade.org/ctc/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/tppinvestment.pdf