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We pay a price when special interests win out over the collective national interest.

Is Wall Street the rightful master of our economic fate? Or should we choose a broader form of sovereignty?

The ethos on Wall Street has not changed, and that's not going to come from the corner office. That's going to come, for better or worse, from Washington, and the whole idea of greed is still good, that is still pervasive.

Banks are slowly but surely lending again, and never again will taxpayers foot the bill for Wall Street's excesses. In case we forgot, that was the change we believed in. That was the change we fought for. That was the change President Obama delivered.

Obviously, there has to be a profound change in direction. Otherwise, interest on the national debt will start eating up virtually every penny that we have.

Anything that we can do to raise personal savings is very much in the interest of this country.

It appears that Wall Street is not acting as a force for economic expansion, providing access to capital for companies that make things. Rather, it seems, Wall Street is using government bailouts to lever up.

The issue is the Republican Party has been paying too much attention to Wall Street and not enough attention to Main Street.