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breaking up big banks: HRC vs BS

On Colbert, Clinton clearly indicated a strategy towards breaking up too big to fail banks quite different than Sanders'. Hers is to let them fail (for which there is Dodds rank insurance money, i.e., a bailout) and IF there are problems managing it's recovery, then the bank goes into reorganization proceedings, i.e. break-up.

Hers is the strategic outlook of a crisis manager, not surprising as she has been in that mindset for many years. She knows how it's done. It's why she always rates as highly prepared to be our country's next president.

Sanders otoh is a change agent. His strategy is to break up the too big to fail right away, under procedures used to proactively break up Ma Bell and IBM. His approach is to not let them fail, to no longer allow their size to overly influence the economy, a key factor in the corruption now rotting our politics and civics to the core. Sanders sees these break ups as one of the medicines that must be applied to heal our currently sick body politic.

Clintons world view was confirmed in her answer to Colbert asking why she wanted to be president? Revealing she replied every statement was about building in a continuous manner on the rights we've won and the economic and political systems now in place.

When contemplating the prospect of forever losing the Supreme Court, my problem is this.... Crisis managers don't bring out the critical new voter cohort necessary for a Democratic victory the way that an authentic change agent always does. Always! We may be setting ourselves up to lose by nominating a Crisis Manager.

nightmare in america

I can no longer fathom the mediocrity of our country's leadership, it's failure to address the climate catastrophe now clear with any program sufficient to the problems at hand. Human extinction is now a certainty within the medium term, and there seems nothing we can do about, or will do about it. The Paris meeting clearly will be as much a failure as its preparatory meetings have been.

I get nauseous even looking at demo underground's posts, most all about subjects completely trivial as nature's bomb is set to explode in a cloud of poisonous methane -- the earth will literally fart in the face of humanity. It's shocking to me DU doesn't have a climate change forum, it's the "environment" how antisceptic.

I blame practically everyone for their WILLFUL STUPIDITY. I am daily depressed that we are not screaming from rooftops that we are self destructing quite rapidly. Instead, let's talk about the new star wars episode, shall we, who's going to die?

I see elsewhere in this forum not to advocate for complete cessation of all industrial activity. Not to stabilize our emissions. Not to forgo all the complete horseshit we have today for "advanced" societies which give us star wars movies. That we are to create and distribute and consume these movies in a "green conscious" manner. Really? You think that will save us?

Oh yes, we're an exceptional nation alright, Bushes Clintons Reagans and many others...
We're exceptionally obscene, a pornographic perverted debauched nation.

now ayn rand set to be majority leader?

Paul Ryan is a randian disciple, don't ever forget. How low can we intellectually go?
Who the hell are we, as a nation, to now accept heartlesness in the corridors of power?