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To: cherry
See my post #26. TARP money has mostly been paid back to the taxpayer...they were LOANS, not bailouts.

Obama's Porkulus was the bailout (not loan) which we will never see again.

27 posted on 11/07/2012 10:28:15 AM PST by what's up
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To: what's up

Firstly, companies are not normally coerced into taking loans. Secondly, loans are normally structured, and not left to be repaid, if ever, whenever the borrower gets around to it. Certainly they aren’t considered to have been theoretically repaid merely because they could be repaid, or could were the business was liquidated, but aren’t in fact. Thirdly, loans normally cost something. Finally, loans normally aren’t a given on the side of the lender, and can’t be relied upon in the future because the lender had guns and can take people’s money and the Too Big to Fail philosophy has been by implication permanently in force.


30 posted on 11/07/2012 11:12:23 AM PST by Tublecane
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