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backscatter712 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 06:17 PM Original message |
If they're too big to be allowed to fail, they're too big to be allowed to exist. |
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autorank (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 06:21 PM Response to Original message |
1. Great point but, more importantly great line |
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Donnachaidh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 06:24 PM Response to Original message |
2. AMEN! |
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liberalla (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-20-08 10:03 AM Response to Reply #2 |
26. Hear, hear! |
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FiveGoodMen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 06:31 PM Response to Original message |
3. A-FUCKING-MEN! |
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Uncle Joe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 06:35 PM Response to Original message |
4. I agree with autorank, that is a great line and a great point. |
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OnceUponTimeOnTheNet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 06:50 PM Response to Original message |
5. K&R Cyber kiss to ya, Great header. |
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backscatter712 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 06:51 PM Response to Original message |
6. For eight years, we've seen zero enforcement of the Sherman Antitrust Act. |
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reflection (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 07:13 PM Response to Original message |
7. This is a GREAT post. |
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Agony (865 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 07:16 PM Response to Original message |
8. FIXING CORPORATIONS by returning to the way we used to do it... |
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backscatter712 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 07:46 PM Response to Reply #8 |
11. I would love to see the corporate death penalty brought back. |
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Lisa0825 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 07:35 PM Response to Original message |
9. K&R! |
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Romulox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 07:45 PM Response to Original message |
10. Except if your name is Bank of America. Or AIG. Or General Electric. Or American Express. |
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JerseygirlCT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 08:54 PM Response to Reply #10 |
15. Wasn't it Barney Frank who said that about AIG when they bailed |
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dflprincess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 09:33 PM Response to Reply #15 |
19. And right after those words of "wisdom" were spoken wasn't Wells Fargo |
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JerseygirlCT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 09:45 PM Response to Reply #19 |
20. And many of these banks receiving |
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Generic Brad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 09:51 PM Response to Reply #20 |
21. The bailout money given to the banks is not a handout |
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JerseygirlCT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 09:53 PM Response to Reply #21 |
22. I understand that - but it wasn't supposed to be used |
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Generic Brad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 09:59 PM Response to Reply #22 |
23. All this talk of acquisitions that have not happened |
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JerseygirlCT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-20-08 08:35 AM Response to Reply #23 |
24. Well, that is why I added the disclaimer about the reports |
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MadMaddie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 08:08 PM Response to Original message |
12. I agree with you but I wouldn't limit it just to the Auto industry |
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backscatter712 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 08:19 PM Response to Reply #12 |
13. Hell yeah. The big monster banks should also be broken up. |
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Chulanowa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 08:52 PM Response to Original message |
14. That's a simple and yet graceful solution |
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tavalon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 08:57 PM Response to Original message |
16. I'm going to play devils advocate here |
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yodermon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 09:13 PM Response to Original message |
17. Any company so large that its demise threatens the very economy |
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salguine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 09:21 PM Response to Original message |
18. It's a good idea. There were well over a hundred American auomobile |
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Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-20-08 08:42 AM Response to Original message |
25. K&R |
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