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ORIGINAL: falcon
Those pukey Wall St. bankers trashed the economy of Iceland with their useless paper. Now we are going to pay to bail thepukes out because a bunch ofpoliticians who are intheir pockets say they are too big to fail.
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This is only news to the ignorant. No reason any person that can read doesn't know how things work.
How did they get so big? Some around here went hand in hand with them down the isle when they could make a buck off of it, had absolutely no problem with the way they were doing business then. Like thinking your the only one in Larry Flints life.
"Under president Taft, socialism flourished" T. Roosevelt blamed it on "the dull pure blind folly of the very rich"
Live and never learn.
""The entire country is insurgent," wrote Franklin K. Lane to Roosevelt, "and insurgency means revolt against taking orders." The insurgents spoke for millions of Americans who believed their government was still taking to many orders from big business. Between 1908 and 1912 the Hearst newspaper documented this belief with letters stolen from the Standard Oil Company which showed that a Standard vice president had sent both voting instructions and checks to important members of Congress. Two prominent Senators, an Ohio Republican and a Texas Democrat, resigned in disgrace after the revelation"
The American past by Roger Butterfield, 1947
Are we next?
