Reagan + Bushes say, "I'm from the govt. and I'm here to help," but don't care.

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They were all genuinely incompetent rubes who would also appointed people like themselves from the corporate revolving door. Both presided over the worst cases of industry buying the regulators. Look at the Bush-2 SEC who would not take on the Madoff case. Other examples abound.

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/tavissmiley/interviews/author-harry-markopolos-2/"> Author Harry Markopolos - Tavis Smiley (video)

The whistleblower whose book on the Bernie Madoff scheme, No One Would Listen, is the basis for the new film Chasing Madoff, discusses his 10-year journey and explains why the fraud was obvious to anybody who cared to look.

For years, Harry Markopolos tried to tip off the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to what turned out to be the largest Ponzi scheme of all time. The former securities industry exec turned independent financial fraud investigator was working for a Boston investment firm, when he discovered Bernie Madoff's house of cards and gives an account of the scandal in the new book No One Would Listen. Markopolos has a master's degree in finance from Boston College and is past president of Boston Security Analysts Society, Inc.

http://politicalhumor.about.com/cs/quotethis/a/reaganquotes.htm">Reagan quotes: "I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself."

[WinkyDink]

1. RR said the line as sarcastic mocking of government:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7Gc_InjLaA

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2. My point was that in his and the Bushes cases it was true.

They don't care about good government and you should be afraid when a gang of people who believe that government should be drown in a bathtub attain high office. They will instantly make it a self-fulfilling prophecy because they are incompetent and they have the power to control all of the agencies of government.