Greenspan's Ideology
The gorilla in the room?

Glass-Steagall Act, we need you back.
    Wall Street's run amok,
Victim of the Greenspan claim,
    it's nothing but bad luck

That markets will be markets
    and boys will still be boys,
Whose abhorrent aberrations
    are some of Wall Street's joys.

But billion dollar bailouts
    indicate he never did
The kind of regulating
    his ideology forbid.

Is that what's holding Congress back –
    his instruments of doom?
Is Greenspan's ideology
    still the gorilla in the room?

Why let a Citi supermarket
    pose devastating threats
With customer deposits
    funding gamblers and their bets?

If any of them panic,
    anticipating fire,
Afghanistan will be a blip,
    a little Monica quagmire.

The Karzai and Bill Clinton lies
    will seem very small potatoes
If Democrats perpetuate
    the Gramm and Greenspan credos.

Bob Carlson
www.politicalboondoggles.com
10/1/09

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