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rucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-06-09 04:23 PM
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Poll question: Why Don't The Banks Want Bailout $$ Anymore?
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Edited on Fri Feb-06-09 04:25 PM by rucky
It's healthy to be cynical about their motives, but let's see how cynical...

Bonus Question: Why are they telling us this? Making it very deliberately public that they don't want/need the money?

Poll result (38 votes)
The TARP funds sufficiently stabilized them. (0 votes, 0%)Vote
Too many strings attached. (30 votes, 79%)Vote
They know they're screwn - with or without bailout (0 votes, 0%)Vote
They've seen the error of their ways (0 votes, 0%)Vote
They're bluffing (0 votes, 0%)Vote
They want to make investors confident (0 votes, 0%)Vote
They never needed them in the first place (6 votes, 16%)Vote
Other (2 votes, 5%)Vote
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  -Why Don't The Banks Want Bailout $$ Anymore? rucky  Feb-06-09 04:23 PM   #0 
  - transparancy is required.... F'n thieves an Cock roaches don't like the light of day  sam sarrha   Feb-06-09 04:37 PM   #1 
  - Heh!!  kimmerspixelated   Feb-06-09 04:41 PM   #4 
  - A combination of too many strings and bluffing. They're going to  Nay   Feb-06-09 04:38 PM   #2 
  - Funny, isn't it? As soon as there are real rules to the dispersal of money and potential losses to  Parker CA   Feb-06-09 04:39 PM   #3 
  - Yep, they figure if they can't steal it  Still Sensible   Feb-06-09 04:43 PM   #5 
  - It's not worth running a bank for a measly $500,000 a year  KamaAina   Feb-06-09 04:45 PM   #6 
  - Hahaha. That is classic!  liberalmuse   Feb-06-09 04:55 PM   #7 
  - They never expected that the media, public, and government would actually check where the money went  LSdemocrat   Feb-06-09 04:59 PM   #8 
  - Caps on pay.  alfredo   Feb-06-09 04:59 PM   #9 
  - BULLSHIT  WVRICK13   Feb-06-09 05:15 PM   #10 
  - Publicity is a drug to Corporate Welfare Queens too.  Donnachaidh   Feb-06-09 05:29 PM   #11 
  - If a bank can turn down free taxpayer money because the CEO wants a Learjet,  backscatter712   Feb-06-09 05:31 PM   #12 
  - The CEO's make the decisions. They don't want their salaries cut  MiniMe   Feb-06-09 06:13 PM   #13 
  - What I find strange  gratuitous   Feb-06-09 06:16 PM   #14 
 

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