I, like many of my well-read friends, are not surprise by the civil suit against Goldman Sachs for fraud. It is several years too late for many.

In the 1980s, when the Congress repealed all the regulations put into effect after the depression in the 1980s, that is when I began to see the crooks taking over our economy.

I have asked Congressman Dave Reichert many times to explain to me why we are having bank failures every week and Canada has none. He has refused to give me an answer. Now I read Canadian banks are so strong they are buying U.S. banks.

George Whitaker, Bellevue