There are plenty of intelligent Americans, who know what is going on in Washington and on Wall Street. Jeffrey Sachs is one of them. As a very young economist in the 80's he assisted (I think on behalf of the IMF) a lot of governments (including the Soviet Union) across the world to restructure their finances. At the time extremely tough and much critizised. In the course of his carreer, he has become critical of the moral decay he saw in the 90's and first decade of the 21th century and in the audio fragment below he comments on the total lack of moral standards and level of outrageous greed in today's financial markets. If only these kind of people could gain power in America.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=7VOWnnEphjI