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Financial Regulations -- The Senate got this done "quick"
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Ed & Larry : "Doesn't matter."
I recently was gifted a thing in Steam. If it was from you, thank you very much!
Also I'd love me something with bank overdrafts, they extracted nearly 50 billion last year in fees from poor people by fun perfectly legal mechanisms like changing the chronology of purchases to produce overdrafts (eg: you have a balance of $500, you buy $50 worth of $1 items and then pay a $450 bill and then a $30 charge comes through for something, bank reorders it as -$450, -$30, -$1*50 and you get many hundreds of dollars in fees for $30 in overdrafts)
As a poor college student, I've experienced that a couple times. I just thought it was coincidence, but it makes total sense for it to be on purpose.
chart!
Also, has Byrd ever done anything good in his 93 years?
Remember when they thought they might be able to get Finreg, cap and trade, AND immigration reform all done before November?
No, I am not really communist. Yes, it is weird that I use this name.
pretty much everything important was watered down on the last two passes, i think
I was so pissed that, yet again, the dems didn't get out in front of that and get a message out. It was really fucking simple. If these banks want to do dangerous shit, then they have to basically buy Fuck-Up insurance from the federal government to insure that if something does go wrong they've already paid to bail themselves out.
Instead, they let fucking Pubs get out in front again, and spread "it's another tax-payer bailout. Your tax money will bail out the banks again. Its another win for Wall Street and another instance where Dems are looking down their noses at Main Street." Which they would say one way or the other, but fuck if I'm not tired of D's just sitting and thinking their legislation is going to do the talking for them.
Historically, every bill giving the power to create rules and not putting the desired rules black on white has been a sham. I have a hard time being as positive as you are.
It's really kind of a shame that they're going to lose the next few Novembers because they overestimate the intelligence and involvement of the voters.
or that they just don't give a shit and care more about keeping their jobs (or whatever cushy corporate lobbying jobs they can land afterward) by staying cozy with america's rich
Considering how much power the SC has given rich people to influence politics, it'd make sense to not antagonize them too much.
Both reasons are plausible enough.
Really McConnell? Really?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/vp/38271383#38271383
They're going to lose this November because no one has any jobs and they caved on the stimulus bill and are now saying things are getting better when they're not. People vote the unemployment rate, every time.
how does the CFPA appoint it's board under this bill?
On the record, Treasury supports Warren.
i also heard that ben nelson brokered a deal with the executive to have geithner bump off warren in favor of one of washington's many, many corporate stooges
we'll see what happens, i guess
hope is futile, death is certain
Was this deal orchestrated by the Queen, the Vatican, The Rothchilds, and Colonel Sanders (before he went tits up)?
the evidence is mostly in the timing
nelson withholds his vote on the bill until he gets veto power over the head of the CFPB, and almost immediately after, along comes Geithner to say that electing Warren to that position would be such a super-bad idea guys i'm not even kidding
considering what nelson has done to decent legislation in the past, it's not much of a stretch
hey, hoping you're right
the last thing we need is another jowly white guy with his arms in the finance industry up to the goddamn elbow
Do you have a better way to disembowel it?