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Grill bankers instead

Sat., June 21, 2014

We have Dr. (Mehmet) Oz being grilled by the Senate Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety and Insurance. Why not the Wall Street bankers instead? Talk about consumer protection, those are the people we need protection from, not Dr. Oz.

I wonder what Oz did? Did he steal trillions of dollars? Did he bring the world economy to its knees with his credit derivatives? Did he put millions of people out of work? What kind of dastardly deed could he have done to raise the ire of our consumer protection agency? Oh, he forgot to send the checks to buy influence from our elected officials.

Well I guess he learned his lesson: Get him on TV and embarrass him. You don’t see that happening to the bankers. They know where to send their money.

Norm Ellefson

Spokane

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