Corporate America is playing us, Treasury like chumps

Corporate America is playing us, Treasury like chumps: "During the hearing, Cummings said what I've been feeling for months. In straight-from-the-'hood vernacular, Cummings captured what has been done to American taxpayers.

'Mr. Kashkari, in the neighborhood I grew up in, in the inner city of Baltimore, one of the things that you tried to do was make sure that you were not considered a chump,' Cummings said. 'And what 'chump' meant was that you didn't want people to see you as just somebody they could get over on.'

Without a doubt, corporate America is playing us like chumps. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and the folks he's assembled to try to get us out of the economic tempest are being played like chumps."