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In reply to the discussion: CNN gets owned Bernie sanders break up banks [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)she will be unable to change the balance of Democrats and Republicans in Congress.
A vote for Hillary is a vote for the status quo, for never getting back to the day when Democrats were in the majority in Congress.
I remember the time when Democrats were in charge in Congress. Those times were good.
And -- it would have been very, very easy to get the banks to divest themselves of some of their assets back when the Obama administration was making deals with the banks, when those huge settlements were being negotiated.
It would also have been easy to get the banks to break themselves up back when we were bailing them out. It was a failure on the part of the Bush and Obama administrations to negotiate deals that included breaking up the banks.
Bernie will hire lawyers who can negotiate on behalf of the government, and this "problem" will be resolved. The banks will either behave themselves and deal honestly with their customers and the public or they will face negotiators who insist that they divest themselves of assets and settle to be smaller and more numerous.
It is A MATTER OF PRIORITIES.
This is not a difficult problem.
Making a big fuss about it is merely due to a lack of understanding about how the world works, a lack of experience in dealing with the world!
Bernie knows who to go to and how to do this. That is why he is talking about it.