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TreasonousBastard

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8. Not really. Billions dealing with fancy investments are hard to grasp, but...

Reply to limpyhobbler (Reply #1)

Fri Jan 6, 2012, 04:20 PM

Jan 2012

an extra 2 bucks on your phone bill is easy and makes the point. The hysteria of economic ruin over the 2 bucks sells papers and builds ratings, too. Might even get a few more donations to Alternet. The NY Times, WSJ, New Yorker, and others have happily documented the evils of Wall Street, but who bothers to read that stuff when you get rants from Common Dreams in your inbox?

Curiously, through all of this nobody mentioned that Verizon already charges an extra 3 bucks to pay your landline bill by phone.

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