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Bernie Sanders: If a financial institution is to big to fail, it is to big to exist... (Original Post) Playinghardball May 2015 OP
Thus giving Jamie Dimon "agita" and causing him to keep shooting his cuffs to make sure those djean111 May 2015 #1
Pretty simple that tk2kewl May 2015 #2
This is so obvious it is painful, and our politicians not only turned aside, bvar22 May 2015 #3
Yeah! liberal_at_heart May 2015 #4
Why is common sense so uncommon? LuvNewcastle May 2015 #5
Upton Sinclair answered this question a long time ago. hifiguy May 2015 #7
That says it all. LuvNewcastle May 2015 #8
And like the honey badger, Bernie doesn't give a shit about their game. hifiguy May 2015 #9
Damn straight!!!! Initech May 2015 #6
 

djean111

(14,255 posts)
1. Thus giving Jamie Dimon "agita" and causing him to keep shooting his cuffs to make sure those
Tue May 5, 2015, 01:56 PM
May 2015

presidential cuff-links are still all shiny.

bvar22

(39,909 posts)
3. This is so obvious it is painful, and our politicians not only turned aside,
Tue May 5, 2015, 06:17 PM
May 2015

they gave the Big Banks Billions, and it only took them about a week to hand over the loot after Paulson delivered his extortion note.

[font size=3]Now THIS is Bi-Partisanship!
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We need another Teddy "Trust Buster" Roosevelt.

LuvNewcastle

(16,845 posts)
5. Why is common sense so uncommon?
Tue May 5, 2015, 06:26 PM
May 2015

We should have 500 people in Congress saying the same things Bernie is saying, or at least a majority. What happens to people when they get to Washington?

 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
7. Upton Sinclair answered this question a long time ago.
Tue May 5, 2015, 07:02 PM
May 2015

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”

LuvNewcastle

(16,845 posts)
8. That says it all.
Tue May 5, 2015, 07:09 PM
May 2015

If they were working for us instead of the wealthy, they would have values similar to Bernie's. It's pay to play for most of them, and it's a fucking disgrace.

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