One refrain we keep hearing about this financial mess, is that the institutions are too large to let fail. Soooo, why don't we break them up? Teddy Roosevelt would have resolved this long ago. Why do neither Obama nor McCain say a word about this? It seems to be getting worse. Every time a huge investment bank fails or teeters it is sold to an even larger investment bank. Doesn't anyone see a problem here? Today Wachovia was swallowed by an even larger bank. Soooo, I bet we sure as hell can’t let Wachovia fail.

Can we try to answer this without calling one another parents pond scum or their favorite party traitors?