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To: Carry_Okie
You have it backwards.

How do you figure that? The Robber Barons were active in the late 1800s and early 1900s putting competing railroads and oil companies out of business. It was the only time the unions were useful getting reasonable working conditions and wages. The banking robber barons took over the banking industry and caused the depression to make a fortune. This was all before Obama the late comer.

20 posted on 04/10/2012 8:00:04 AM PDT by mountainlion (I am voting for Sarah after getting screwed again by the DC Thugs.)
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To: mountainlion
The Robber Barons were active in the late 1800s and early 1900s putting competing railroads and oil companies out of business.

Now they're using tax-exempt "charitable" foundations to fund "environmental" NGOs that sue complicit government agencies to control the supply side. Read the article.

29 posted on 04/10/2012 8:57:05 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (The RINOcrat Party is still in charge. There has never been a conservative American government.)
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