In 2008, Goldman Sachs only paid 1.1 percent of its income in taxes even though it earned a profit of $2.3 billion and received an almost $800 billion from the Federal Reserve and U.S. Treasury Department.

The Federal Reserve has a responsibility to ensure the safety and soundness of financial institutions and to contain systemic risks in financial markets.

Ford's federal income tax rate was just 2.3 percent in 2009 even though it made $3 billion in profits.

The Federal Reserve needs to provide small businesses in America with the same low-interest loans it gave to foreign banks.

Citigroup, Bank of America, and JP Morgan Chase should not be permitted to charge consumers 25- to 30-percent interest on their credit cards, especially while these banks received over $4 trillion in loans from the Federal Reserve.

The Federal Reserve is incapable of accomplishing its stated objectives.