Fiddling (With Its P.R. Campaign) While Rome Burns

From Washington's Blog Excerpts:
Instead of putting out the fire, or even changing things so that they are less likely to catch fire in the future, the Obama administration (like the Bush administration before it) is just fiddling with it's P.R. campaign.

With everything from the financial crisis to the Gulf oil spill, the government didn't actually help so much as launch a campaign to convince Americans that:
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(2) The big companies that caused the mess are good guys who just made some wee little mistakes (when they committed fraud and criminal negligence. See this)
(3) Big changes have been made (when meaningless changes were made - primarily written by the big companies themselves - and loopholes built in so that the companies don't really have to comply with them anyway. See this)

Why do large power and operational entities refuse to squarely identify and fix the real problems causing our various crises, rather than trying to continue to baffle us with the usual bullshit? We simply cannot continue to kick the can of our problems down the road for others to address when they became critical. We must fix what we break. This is not radical; This is a: Using common sense b: Not being lazy c: Being responsible to everything and everyone else on the planet.