>It's funny how so much of the regulations put in place had the opposite effect and made running small firms (ie, with more liability than the big ones) became

>It's funny how so much of the regulations put in place had the opposite effect and made running small firms (ie, with more liability than the big ones) became almost impossible. What did you expect? Obama was a policy wonk, preferring to craft intricate rulesets and mandates to coddle entrenched players rather than prosecute fraud directly or engage in structural reform. He tours the country now on the corporate talk circuit shouting down reasonable populist policy. We have a choice to change that now, in the Democratic primary.