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WCGreen

(45,558 posts)
Thu Jun 21, 2012, 11:25 PM Jun 2012

Hundreds of homeless Gulf War area vets in every big city and yet....

not one banker is spending any time in jail...

These guys who look the other way when the vets come home are the same who look away at the monetary cataclysm these bankers inflicted on our economy...

Forgot the most important word in the title...

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Hundreds of homeless Gulf War area vets in every big city and yet.... (Original Post) WCGreen Jun 2012 OP
Hey I guess that is the Republican Way SoutherDem Jun 2012 #1
There are cancer grannies flaunting their wanton criminality with the evil weed.. Fumesucker Jun 2012 #2
The bankers obviously have way more important things to worry about... CaliforniaPeggy Jun 2012 #3
That is the problem with our society RobertEarl Jun 2012 #4
To me it's even more perverse.... WCGreen Jun 2012 #5

Fumesucker

(45,851 posts)
2. There are cancer grannies flaunting their wanton criminality with the evil weed..
Fri Jun 22, 2012, 12:16 AM
Jun 2012

Priorities, sir, we must have priorities.



CaliforniaPeggy

(156,991 posts)
3. The bankers obviously have way more important things to worry about...
Fri Jun 22, 2012, 12:58 AM
Jun 2012

Like their profits...

And who they've bought with those profits today.

 

RobertEarl

(13,685 posts)
4. That is the problem with our society
Fri Jun 22, 2012, 01:52 AM
Jun 2012

Bankers have more value to us than our soldiers.

That fact is reflected in their pay scales.

WCGreen

(45,558 posts)
5. To me it's even more perverse....
Fri Jun 22, 2012, 06:15 AM
Jun 2012

Take into consideration that the bank investments are being protected by the very soldiers that they ignore as soon as they are off the battlefield.

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