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To: 9thLife

Wasn’t there a depression in the late 1800’s where people were so p!$$ed off at the bankers that they started stringing them up on gas lamp poles?


9 posted on 01/26/2015 11:50:35 AM PST by tgusa (gun control: deep breath, sight alignment, squeeze the trigger .......)
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To: tgusa

I seem to recall that being the Panic of 1873.


13 posted on 01/26/2015 11:55:04 AM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: tgusa

Grover Cleveland’s 2nd term... Don’t know the details.


16 posted on 01/26/2015 11:55:23 AM PST by BigEdLB (Now there ARE 1,000,000 regrets - but it may be too late.)
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To: tgusa
Wasn’t there a depression in the late 1800’s where people were so p!$$ed off at the bankers that they started stringing them up on gas lamp poles?

I dunno, but I expect to see the idea plugged on Elizabeth Warren bumper stickers in 2016.


18 posted on 01/26/2015 11:55:28 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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