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To: rintintin

[So many bailouts for banks over the past 15 years. (followed by bonuses for top executives). But somehow it’s outrageous to bail out average people]


The bailouts were paid back, with interest. Will these checks be paid back, with interest? As part of those bailouts, stockholders like me lost their entire investments in companies like Washington Mutual and GM and bondholders were raped in favor of the unions. If the banks had collapsed, we would have seen a rerun of the Great Depression, with 30% unemployment, making the recent pandemic problems look like a walk in the park.

The bank bailouts were a bailout of the little people. While executives near the top benefited from them, with only the top men getting axed, the biggest beneficiary was the American working man, starting from assembly line workers at GM, who got to work another day instead of having their workplaces sold for scrap.


32 posted on 12/28/2020 3:31:00 PM PST by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: Zhang Fei

I got it. You’re for the feds bailing out banks but not little guys.

That’s the old GOP. It’s the Romney GOP. And it’s back now that Trumps leaving. And it will never win the presidency again - just as MCCain and Romney couldn’t win.


34 posted on 12/28/2020 3:33:02 PM PST by rintintin (Every time a conservative watches Tucker, a Fox News liberal reporter gets a pay raise. )
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To: Zhang Fei

Completely different banks. “Term” rip bundlers, and insurance rips. Fat RICO now


42 posted on 12/28/2020 3:37:33 PM PST by Varsity Flight ("War by the prophesies set before you." I Timothy 1:18)
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To: Zhang Fei

Free ! Free! Free just means let the kids pay for it
Where’s the commercial or video showing a toddler happily playing suddenly being demanded to pay its thousands of dollars share of the national debt ? When the toddler breaks into screaming” HOW COULD THEY DO THIS TO ME ???” in tears ? posted this in my website
http://www.theusmat.com/index.htm

If this fraudulent election wasn’t going on Trump should vetoed this. NOW I HOPE HE EXPLAINS AND BLAMES THAT SHAKEDOWN FORCING ITS PASSAGE.

That democrat controlled house 5000 or more page budget blaster hasn’t been examined but I bet there is Bailouts for sanctuary states and cities along with a mountain of other appropriations going for give-a-way projects where Swamp family members wind up being “bag men” for those that voted for this.


111 posted on 12/28/2020 5:12:46 PM PST by mosesdapoet (mosesdapoet aka L.J.Keslin posting here for the record hoping somebody might read and pass around)
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