Suppose that Wall Street didn't steal your bike.
Suppose that you had a bunch of bikes, and that the government took a share of those bikes for its own purposes... to make bike racks and build roads for you to bike on and provide health care for old people who fell off of their bikes. And suppose there was an industry whose purpose it was to facilitate the movement of bikes between different bike-owning entities. Now suppose that industry constantly badgered the government, saying that the government was burdening it with needless bike safety regulations, and that deregulating it would really allow it to increase the overall number of bikes available to the government's citizens. And suppose the industry promised the government some shiny new bikes in exchange for that deregulation.
Now suppose that the industry badly mismanaged the country's bikes, to the point that many of them were so broken as to be unusable - I mean you couldn't even put a baseball card in the spokes to make it sound like a motorcycle when you pedaled - and there were so few bikes and so much uncertainty that it threatened every bike in existence! And the industry looked to the government, who was the only one with any power to fix the bike situation. And in response, the government passed a law called, say, the Troubled Axle Recovery Program, which provided an influx of bikes to the industry in order to stabilize the bike situation in the country and allow bikes to move more freely between entities. And let's say that the government gave out 245 billion bikes, and got back more than ninety percent of those bikes back when everything was said and done. That sounds like a lot of bikes missing, but in reality it's less than the number of bikes the government gives out to its senior citizens every two weeks.
Let's also suppose that while this was all going down, it came to light that not only was it the deregulation that caused all of the problems, but that many people in the industry were also engaged in fraud and other illegal activities. And let's suppose that when the government tried to impose tighter regulations on the industry, not only did the industry fight back, but so did many of the people in government who had been given shiny new bikes, as well as many of the citizens who side with those people in government. And let's suppose that despite all of the allegations of illicit activity, nearly nothing has been done to bring the wrongdoers to justice.
Now, who should you be angry with? Should you be angry with the bike transfer and management industry, who acted in their own best interests and tried to acquire as many shiny bikes for themselves as possible, when you yourself (well, perhaps not you specifically, but almost everyone you know) are actively involved in the same quest? Or should you be upset at the government, for allowing all of this to happen, and then doing very little to prevent it from happening again.
Hmmm.