Support for jailing execs now is too little, too late

Come on, Ben Bernanke. You know better than this. It’s not surprising that the Wall Street and megabank types responsible for America’s financial meltdown should have been, but were not, jailed (“Bernanke: More execs should have been jailed,” News, Monday).

Had the little guy attempted to do what these people had done in 2008, they would be currently pulling KP, aka kitchen police, or laundry and latrine duty at Terre Haute’s sprawling federal penitentiary complex south of town.

Earl Beal Terre Haute, Ind.

Ben should be more thankful to private enterprise. Its role is to raise living standards and to encourage innovation and productivity. I think Ben simply has a cash flow problem and is using his ex- title to pickpocket the taxpayers again by getting them to buy his book.

The U. S. government has failed drastically in policymaking. And then there is the limp degree of accountability taken by our so- called leaders — just pitiful. Be careful what you wish for, Ben, when you insult the hand that has to feed you. Perhaps your banker friends will purchase your fiction piece.

Kathy Holland New York

“Obviously, everything that went wrong or was illegal was done by some individual.”

Ben Bernanke, former Fed chair

JACK GRUBER, USA TODAY