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BigBearJohn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-10-11 04:06 PM Original message |
The Government gave $16 trillion to the banks. And nobody else is talking about it. |
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kentuck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-10-11 04:09 PM Response to Original message |
1. kick |
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aint_no_life_nowhere (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-10-11 04:09 PM Response to Original message |
2. Anyone have a link to the actual GAO report? |
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PeaceNikki (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-10-11 04:12 PM Response to Reply #2 |
5. He said it's on "Page 131 of GAO Report No. GAO-11-696" |
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PeaceNikki (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-10-11 04:17 PM Response to Reply #2 |
9. Link |
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dmallind (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-10-11 04:39 PM Response to Reply #9 |
11. Not only loans, but loans multiplied by time |
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Ikonoklast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-10-11 05:39 PM Response to Reply #11 |
15. Grayson is being disingenuous on this. |
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SomethingFishy (552 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-11-11 05:17 PM Response to Reply #15 |
24. So then tell me. What is the real amount and how high |
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girl gone mad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-11-11 03:45 AM Response to Reply #11 |
18. You need to dig a little deeper. |
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dmallind (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-11-11 08:15 AM Response to Reply #18 |
20. 400B, 16T? Yeah you're right. Same kind of problem - so OK to use either figure. Got it. nt |
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girl gone mad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-11-11 04:46 PM Response to Reply #20 |
22. It's definitely not OK to pretend that it was only $10 Billion... |
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PeaceNikki (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-10-11 04:10 PM Response to Original message |
3. Full text on his FB page - link here: |
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Uben (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-10-11 04:11 PM Response to Original message |
4. Gave or loaned? |
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banned from Kos (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-10-11 04:14 PM Response to Reply #4 |
6. Loaned. And if you rolled a $1 billion loan over for a full year |
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unblock (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-10-11 04:25 PM Response to Reply #6 |
10. worse than that -- many of the loans were overnight loans! |
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theophilus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-10-11 05:14 PM Response to Reply #10 |
14. Well said! n/t |
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Uben (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-10-11 04:45 PM Response to Reply #6 |
13. Sensationalism. I don't stoop to FOX NEWS levels |
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girl gone mad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-11-11 03:04 AM Response to Reply #4 |
16. You're wrong. |
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SOS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-11-11 08:57 AM Response to Reply #16 |
21. Yes, $1.54 trillion outstanding as of July 2011 |
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mod mom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-10-11 04:14 PM Response to Original message |
7. Is this the next bail out that Matt Taibbi is talking about here: |
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indepat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-10-11 04:16 PM Response to Original message |
8. But didn't the gubment make money on TARP so surely it will make money on the |
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valerief (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-10-11 04:43 PM Response to Original message |
12. Bernie Sanders talks about it on every show he's on. nt |
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EdMaven (290 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-11-11 03:06 AM Response to Original message |
17. But there's not enough money for Social Security (about 600 billion a year, all of it paid |
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BelgianMadCow (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-11-11 03:51 AM Response to Original message |
19. Yes, this is the alfa and omega - dwarfs any other discussion - and trillions in EU too |
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IndyPragmatist (556 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-11-11 05:08 PM Response to Original message |
23. NOT TRUE! The government did not loan 16T, it was the Federal Reserve that did |
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