Read A People's History by Howard Zinn

I suggest that everybody read The People's History of the United States. Here is another quote from Cleveland's reassurance to the railroad maganates (who had been given the best land near the new lines and who had received other corporate welfare besides. He is talking about regulation of the railroads: "The commission.. is or can be of great use to the railroads. It satisfies the popular clamor for government supervision of railroads, at the same time that the supervision is almost entirely nominal.. The part of wisdom is not to destroy the Commission, but to utilize it." Just like having an SEC but not funding it enough so that it could do its job; or giving Elizabeth Warren the task of setting up consumer safe guards but not the authority. Set up watchdogs but don't let them get in the way of corporate greed which has always gone by the name of capitalism.