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midnight Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-07-10 06:32 AM
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1. I think the AIG scandal illustrates how the wealthy are guarded by buildings
of accountants, lawyers, and law makers. Big Banking has been protected, with our money. All those folks working for the fed and banking industries did it so secretly too. If all that money and time had been instead infused into small business,credit for the working class this economy would be humming...
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  -1 in 4 Americans economists is employed to guard the wealth of the rich Joe Chi Minh  Feb-07-10 06:12 AM   #0 
  - I think the AIG scandal illustrates how the wealthy are guarded by buildings  midnight   Feb-07-10 06:32 AM   #1 
  - I'm surprised it's not more.  Meeker Morgan   Feb-07-10 06:40 AM   #2 
  - They certainly traduced Adam Smith, misconstruing his point that  Joe Chi Minh   Feb-07-10 11:36 AM   #9 
  - It has always been thus.....  Proletariatprincess   Feb-07-10 08:19 AM   #3 
  - This certainly explains why teabaggers get  JoeyT   Feb-07-10 08:28 AM   #4 
  - neither does Steve Keen  Locrian   Feb-07-10 08:34 AM   #5 
  - Article header actually reads, "Economist: 1 in 4 Americans is employed to guard the wealth of rich"  brentspeak   Feb-07-10 10:34 AM   #6 
  - Thank you for the correction. I noticed it was wrong, but not the full extent -  Joe Chi Minh   Feb-07-10 11:25 AM   #7 
     - I mean that Wall Street and rich ideologues,  brentspeak   Feb-07-10 11:30 AM   #8 
        - It really has to be a cornerstone of the goverment of any civilised society,  Joe Chi Minh   Feb-07-10 11:48 AM   #10 
  - I'm sorry, the title of the article actually reads: "Economist: 1 in 4 Americans is employed to  Joe Chi Minh   Feb-07-10 11:51 AM   #11 
 

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