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ljm2002

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11. Back when they first started talking about bailouts...

Fri May 17, 2013, 10:14 AM

May 2013

...when Bush was still in office, Congress members (both Senators and Representatives) got lots of mail, email and phone calls from their constituents. Opinion was running very, very strongly against the bailouts. Some of them who voted for the bailout, later admitted their feedback was running 100-to-1 against doing the bailout. Now that is a consensus! You know that the people voicing their opinions had to be of all political stripes.

So yes. There is common ground on what is wrong in this area. There is no common ground, however, on who is to blame. And that's where they (the 1%) get us gnawing at each other's ankles rather than turning on them.

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