It breaks my heart that people laughed so much at him during the debates and campaigning.

Putting a sweater on someone with a cold can help. Putting a sweater on someone with leprosy...not so much. We want people to solve our economic problems, but aren't willing to confront the fact that maybe, just maybe, our financial system needs changing. Even after we've lost 3 out of the 5 largest investment banks, even after we see Freddie, Fannie and now AIG get bailed out by the government (which does so, by the way, by printing even more money), with Morgan Stanley and Goldman apparently about to topple, we still laugh at people like Ron Paul who dare to suggest that printing money might not be the answer, that an imperialistic foreign policy is unsustainable.