There was no way people could feel fixed in 2010. So I wish now, and I’m not — I didn’t see it, either — but I wish now that we had all known enough about this on September 16, 2008, when we still had a debate or two to go, and that the president could have said, “You know, I’ve just looked at this. This kind of thing is happening to us now, first we gotta keep everything from cratering, and that means we’ll have to help some people who contributed to the problem. I hate that, but I can’t let your financial system go down. I can’t let it be so you can’t use your credit card. I can’t let — and then, at five hundred years every one of these things takes between five and ten years to get over. My goal is to beat that. I’m gonna try to get it done for you in less than five years. That’s my goal, that oughta be America’s goal, we oughta beat the odds, we oughta do something nobody has ever done before, but it won’t be fixed in two years. It can’t be.”
