Enact what Sen. Chris Dodd referred to as "clawbacks." I.e. require disgorgement of everything these bastards have accumulated up to the total extent of the damage they have caused, including their real estate, cars, boats, stocks, bonds, safety deposit box contents--everything! For those who have expatriated their profits or themselves, make arrangements with foreign countries for them to expropriate those assets, using that portion they recover as required to cover losses to their citizens and returning the remainder to the USA. Do the same for them.
As a final sop, qualify them for SSI as being emotionally disabled and allow them to receive food stamps. Call it tough love. It would give them the basis in personal experience to develop compassion for those less fortunate than they are. There would still be many of those. As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."
That can indeed be the first thing brought to Congress to start pounding away at the vestiges of the Republican Senate Fillibuster ... make them vote against making the executives who created the mess personally liable, or else turn class traitor in defense of their own necks, especially the large Republican class up for re-election in 2010. I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.
