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Neil Barofsky, the former Inspector General of the Troubled Asset Relief Fund, can sum up the state of the nation in two words: “Pretty fucked.”

The concise assessment came Tuesday during a question and answer session on Gawker in which a commenter asked: “So we’re just totally fucked, right? As citizens, like no-way-out fucked?” The former bailout watchdog, who is currently promoting his new book Bailout, went political with his message.

“We need to convince those seeking or trying to retain power that they will not get our votes unless and until they commit to meaningful change of a financial system,” he wrote in the Q&A.

With his f-bomb, Barofsky joins Christina Romer in the cursing hall of fame. Romer, the former chair of President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers, told Bill Maher last year that the U.S. was “pretty darned fucked” on the night that Standard and Poor’s downgraded the country’s credit rating.

[HUFFINGTON POST]

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