Democracy for America has a petition for you to sign Tell President Obama: Prosecute Wall Street Criminals.

Here is a key part of the explanation that you will see at the above link:

Wall Street banks have gotten away with way too much already. As long as they know that breaking the law will never result in anything more than a slap on the wrist, they’ll keep taking the kinds of risks that led to the last economic collapse — and would almost certainly create another crisis for working families in the future.

Who would have thought that we would have to explain this to President Obama? Next time, we need to elect someone who understands this and promises to prosecute white collar crime as vigorously as other kinds of crime. White collar crimes like the ones that some the Wall Street executives perpetrate cause more physical harm to more people than an armed robber causes when he or she displays a gun, but does not use it.

Making a promise of vigorous prosecution of white collar crime be a litmus test for the next President, is not too much to ask. It shouldn’t even be a promise that we should have to ask a Presidential candidate to make. The extremely bad precedent that Obama has set, is what makes it necessary to ask for this promise from now on.