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Stinky The Clown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-07-10 09:12 AM
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17. Yet there are people who see them as the second coming of Mother Theresa
We should have either nationalized them or let them fail and divided the assets among smaller, local and regional banks, who have actually been working in their communities. Still banks. Still worth keeping under scrutiny, but not nearly as bad as the Too Big To Fails.
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  -Help a creaky old clown understand something . . . . . Stinky The Clown  Jul-07-10 07:57 AM   #0 
  - Sssssh.  unhappycamper   Jul-07-10 08:10 AM   #1 
  - What did we get in return? We got screwed. K&R  katandmoon   Jul-07-10 08:11 AM   #2 
  - explain this...sam`s club is offering 7.5% sbl`s to their customers  madrchsod   Jul-07-10 08:16 AM   #3 
  - The facts are in conflict with your assertion  NJmaverick   Jul-07-10 08:17 AM   #4 
  - You comment misses the point  Stinky The Clown   Jul-07-10 08:20 AM   #7 
  - Why would the banks lend?  n2doc   Jul-07-10 08:17 AM   #5 
  - But but but it would have been so much worse it we hadn't bailed them out  progressoid   Jul-07-10 08:18 AM   #6 
  - I don't know about the big banks, but small business lending  MineralMan   Jul-07-10 08:33 AM   #8 
  - We got less unemployment than we would have gotten  treestar   Jul-07-10 08:34 AM   #9 
  - Deleted message  Name removed   Jul-07-10 04:15 PM   #26 
     - aren't you a little ray of sunshine!  dionysus   Jul-07-10 04:25 PM   #28 
  - Thank God It Passed..  Fumesucker   Jul-07-10 08:35 AM   #10 
  - Here's some pertinent information about what Chase is doing  MineralMan   Jul-07-10 08:42 AM   #11 
  - Here's another story pertinent to your OP:  MineralMan   Jul-07-10 08:46 AM   #12 
  - And another pertinent story, demonstrating that big banks are not  MineralMan   Jul-07-10 08:51 AM   #13 
  - The only thing that trickles down to us is warm, wet and yellow.  hobbit709   Jul-07-10 08:52 AM   #14 
  - I've always contended it is better to be pissed off than pissed on.  Stinky The Clown   Jul-07-10 09:00 AM   #15 
  - referred to by my Depression-era dad as the "horse and sparrow" theory  alterfurz   Jul-07-10 06:05 PM   #29 
  - Shoulda nationalized them.  kenny blankenship   Jul-07-10 09:09 AM   #16 
  - Yet there are people who see them as the second coming of Mother Theresa  Stinky The Clown   Jul-07-10 09:12 AM   #17 
  - If you hand over hundreds and hundreds of billions to proven frauds and confidence sharks  kenny blankenship   Jul-07-10 09:19 AM   #21 
  - 12 trillion ++..  girl gone mad   Jul-07-10 03:26 PM   #25 
  - We avoided a Depression  HughMoran   Jul-07-10 09:14 AM   #18 
  - Bookmarking  Stinky The Clown   Jul-07-10 09:15 AM   #19 
  - We know what you're hoping for  HughMoran   Jul-07-10 09:17 AM   #20 
     - What am I hoping for?  Stinky The Clown   Jul-07-10 11:00 AM   #23 
  - Funny, I just read where we are pretty much in a depression...  walldude   Jul-07-10 04:18 PM   #27 
  - nah, we just delayed one  librechik   Jul-07-10 06:11 PM   #30 
  - Nationalize the finance sector  blindpig   Jul-07-10 09:49 AM   #22 
  - Oh Stinky, stop that crazy talk!...  Javaman   Jul-07-10 11:57 AM   #24 
 

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