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5. Accountable to whom for what?

Reply to choie (Reply #3)

Sat May 19, 2012, 06:39 PM

May 2012

Accountable to them to keep their names in the paper and the dough flowing to their banking accounts? That's actually the very definition of American capitalism of the grifting, crony kind that is their specialty.

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