No justice after the meltdown

Syndicated columnist Bob Herbert mentions "the fiscal disaster brought on by the Great Recession," the results of which are "state after state dealing with a fiscal crisis" ("A Ruinous Meltdown," March 22).

Interestingly, he fails to mention those largely responsible for this Great Recession and its attendant problems, they being the financial sector, Wall Streeters and the CEOs of those "too big to fail" financial houses and banks, exactly those who, stoop shouldered by the weight of their bonuses, skate off unpunished, into the setting sun, leaving the rest of us mortals knee-deep in financial carnage.

Aside from the fact that there is law and justice for the poor, law and justice for the rich, perhaps law and justice for those in-between too - there being marked differences among the three - doesn't it strike the editors and readers of this letter that there is something terribly out of whack with a system - ours - that allows transgressors to benefit so mightily, while their victims and innocents, not always identical, are left swinging in the breeze?

 

ALAN SCHULTZ
McCandless