What I can't understand is why the crimes committed by Wall Street and the banks aren't considered 'Class Warfare'.
They can afford PR writers and own ALL the major media outlets. It's only "class warfare" when the peons complain about it. If a private citizen did what Wall Street did, he would be facing a multiple-century sentence. Investment banks got more money. I understand why the bailouts were necessary to an extent, but without taking the opportunity to attach meaningful regulatory oversight to that money, US taxpayers directly paid for the largest 'no strings' private cash windfall in the planet's history.
The White House didn't drop the ball; it HANDED it to Wall Street and seemed surprised when the investment banks went right back to doing exactly the same things as before... except they stopped lending to the middle class and effectively destroyed what little wealth (credit) it had left after the housing market imploded, screwing the whole economy further while rolling in their mountains of taxpayer cash. This kind of fiscal naivete inspired
genuine (and legitimate) fear in corporate America that any investment in tandem with Obama would be a lose/lose proposition, both fiscally and politically. The GOP/Tea Party shrewdly has positioned itself as the only viable corporate and employment savior, even though they are just as much to blame as Obama, actually MUCH moreso since their orgy of dergulation in the 1980's created the situation to start with. Their answer to the problem is of course to further deregulate everything in sight and overjoyed CEO's will magically put 10% of the US workforce back into employment. That unemployed middle class Americans can support this idea is idiocy of the highest order, yet many do support it, giving reasons that range from the absurd to the unbelievable when the real reason is that they're afraid things are only going to get worse, (which they are), and the savior they sought in Obama ended up being a sucker betrayed by his ideals and faith in the political process. Obama wanted to be FDR and ended up being Carter.
That's about as neutral as I can present it.