No, I’m afraid it’s a big sh*t sandwich and we all gotta take a bite if we want to eat a sandwich. As long as its not gritty, and producers keep salmonella and aflatoxins down to a bare minimum (there’s a good example of how great regulation with slow enforcement doesn’t work) I’ll do my best to conveniently forget about all the other nice things in my wonder bread.

It does make me curious, if you intended to suggest that you do recognize that the financial sector behaved in a manner that, broadly, isn’t good for the country – which you didn’t explicitly say, but seems like a reasonable implication – it makes me curious exactly what you’d like to see done about it.

I’m guessing your considered options are
a) nothing and
b) a federal spending freeze
but perhaps there’s a c).

Believe it or not, the fact the financial sector behaved in an imperfect way can’t be undone. Not even by spending trillions of dollars we don’t have!! Maybe you mean how to prevent it from happening again? But spending trillions doesn’t seem to have anything to do with that either!! Or do you mean something else. Who knows…

Probably the single most effective way of preventing it from happening again is stopping the practice of Fannie/Freddy from purchasing high risk mortgages and reselling them into the system, where the whole mess actually started. Derivatives and leverage were a step or two down the line.

Grow it all in your backyard,

And fertilize it with rat poo.

I remember a SPAM haiku contest from years ago:
Did you ever think:
“Where do rats go when they die?”
SPAM knows where they go.

I don’t want rat poo.
Not to eat or smell or touch.
No corn flakes for me!

Oh-or you could have the free market where there is no real way to tell if there is rat poo in your food coz its usually dried and powdered (it comes with the grains used to make cornflakes as JH notes above). Coz you can’t decide not to eat rat poo if you don’t know it’s there the result is that you eat a lot of poo. Wait does the difficulty in determine if there is rat poo in your food mean that there it NOT a true free market in processed foods? Maybe if some neutral party hired some inspectors…. that could not be bribed somehow.