What I Don't Get

On the one hand:

Al Qaeda gave us a bloody nose on September 11, 2001. A few large buildings were destroyed, others damaged, about 3,000 people killed.

As a result, we have spent over a trillion dollars going after them, engaging in a war of aggression (against Iraq) and have added a whole plethora of security measures, most of which were eyewash to make people feel better.

On the other hand:

Wall Street and the banks knowingly engaged in bubbleizing the economy. Some of them sold off securities that they knew were fraudulent and then bet on the near dead-nuts certainty of those securities failing. The global economy almost collapsed in September of 2008. Millions of Americans and tens of millions of people around the world were thrown out of work. The uncertainty of continued employment, let alone losing one's job, has bad health effects and people are dying.Thousands of businesses failed, as did well over a hundred banks in this country alone. Millions of Americans are financially trapped in houses for which they cannot sell, as they owe more than their homes are worth. At least one entire nation is essentially bankrupt.

As a result, by pledging almost a trillion dollars, we propped up the banks and Wall Street. Nobody, other than Bernie Madoff, went to jail. The only firm that was dismantled was Lehman Brothers. No meaningful reforms have been enacted to make it so the grifters on Wall Street and the banks, including those greedy fucks at Goldman Sachs, cannot do it again. No meaningful help as been provided to anyone other than the big banks. Commercial credit is still largely unavailable, as the banks took the billions from TARP and did nothing with the money, other than pay out lots of bonuses to their top-level management.

Does any of this make any sense to anyone? We got so outraged when a bunch of Chitrali-hat wearing thugs wrecked the World Trade Center, but when a bunch of bespoke-suit wearing goons wrecked the economy, we have done essentially nothing.

The bind moggles.