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Should banks pay back the bailout money before they lobby?
Youpolls ^ | 10-27-2009

Posted on 10/27/2009 4:33:14 PM PDT by DBlake

Should banks pay back the bailout money before they lobby? Vote

Thousands of protesters have gathered outside a banking conference in Chicago today - the final day of a three-day rally for financial reform - to call for an end to lobbying against proposed financial regulation by banks that pocketed taxpayer bailouts last year.


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1 posted on 10/27/2009 4:33:14 PM PDT by DBlake
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To: DBlake

I thought that nearly everyone who could pay the money back has done so. Aren’t there only a few banks left holding TARP funds?


2 posted on 10/27/2009 4:38:36 PM PDT by proxy_user
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To: DBlake
The First Amendment says "Congress shall pass no law...."

Zip. Zero. Nada. None.

Which means that some Czar will probably do it.
3 posted on 10/27/2009 5:19:27 PM PDT by Tzimisce (No thanks. We have enough government already. - The Tick)
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