Steven Thompson, editor
Freedom From The Press

Over the weekend a family elder handed me the opinion page of the Wall Street Journal and pointed to a piece written by veteran journalist Peggy Noonan. It’s difficult to say if Ms. Noonan wrote the headline since it’s common practice for MSM articles to be passed up to senior editors for headlines and other window dressing. In itself, the headline, “We’re Governed by Callous Children” raised an eyebrow or two with this editor. If we’re to believe the headline, those who govern us do so with 0% assistance from outside peddlers of influence. I don’t buy it and neither should you.

I’ll give credit where credit is due. Ms. Noonan states that the American people have lost confidence in how our government handles our economy.  I won’t offer my comments on every portion of this WSJ opinion piece since you’ve been provided with the link above and after careful reading can form your own opinion. I must however draw your attention to the close of the initial paragraph. Ms. Noonan states, “No one believes the bad time [economic] is over. No one thinks we’re entering a new age of abundance. No one thinks it will ever be the same as before 2008. Economist, statisticians, forecasters and market specialists will argue about what the new numbers mean, but no one believes them, either. Among the things swept away in 2008 was public confidence in the experts. The experts missed the crash. They’ll miss the meaning of this moment, too.”

On the surface, one might read what Ms. Noonan wrote and say, “What’s the big deal? She’s spot on…” That said, I’m not your average reader and have a major problem with one sentence that’s 5 words long. The truth, and nothing but the truth, the experts [and those whom we elected to serve dating back to the Clinton and Bush administrations] didn’t miss the crash, they created the crash…

3-stooges

Is there no [white collar] justice in modern day America? If President Obama has any desire to promote justice, our “Three [Wall Street] Stooges” should be arrested, prosecuted and if found guilty of fraud, allowed to rot in the same prisons where middle class and poor criminals are housed…