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21 Nov 2015, 3:41 pm

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2015/11 ... .html?_r=0


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21 Nov 2015, 4:11 pm

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http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2015/11/21/business/ap-us-dem-2016-clinton.html?_r=0


With a Republican Congress? She must feel like Super Woman. :lol:

But her answer, when she fails, is always going to be "What difference does it make now?"



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21 Nov 2015, 4:13 pm

Keywording here is "if needed". She won't actually do anything about it, because the banks are her biggest donators. Hence why she refuses to acknowledge that the repealing of Glass-Steagal was the worst idea of the century, because that would hold banks accountable. She can't offend her real friends.

This is another case of Clinton trying to mooch off of Sanders ideas, only he said he'll actually go through with it.



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21 Nov 2015, 4:42 pm

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Keywording here is "if needed". She won't actually do anything about it, because the banks are her biggest donators.


But making the threat is a good way to squeeze even more protection money from them.

Nice bank you have here. Be a shame if anything … happened to it.


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21 Nov 2015, 10:51 pm

If the banks really thought she'd be that much of a threat to them they could have her "taken care of" before the elections and be done with it.


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22 Nov 2015, 1:25 am

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If the banks really thought she'd be that much of a threat to them they could have her "taken care of" before the elections and be done with it.


By which you mean they'd write her bigger checks.


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22 Nov 2015, 5:02 pm

Hillary is a liar who will say anything to win. What candidate have the big banks given more money than anyone else? They're not stupid, are you? Remember who Hillary pretended to be in 2008 when she was running against Obama, she was the original birther! Do not trust this criminal.



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22 Nov 2015, 11:44 pm

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If the banks really thought she'd be that much of a threat to them they could have her "taken care of" before the elections and be done with it.


By which you mean they'd write her bigger checks.


Not exactly......


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23 Nov 2015, 9:58 pm

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Pileo wrote:
Keywording here is "if needed". She won't actually do anything about it, because the banks are her biggest donators.


But making the threat is a good way to squeeze even more protection money from them.

Nice bank you have here. Be a shame if anything … happened to it.



Considering how the banks have been f*cking people over for years now, and have been allowed to get away with it - by Obama too, I'm sorry to say - I don't have much sympathy for them if someone puts the squeeze on them.


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23 Nov 2015, 11:22 pm

^ So who have they f****d and how? They lend money and profit from the interest. They don't give it away.


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24 Nov 2015, 12:32 am

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^ So who have they f****d and how? They lend money and profit from the interest. They don't give it away.


It's well known how they had provided poor people with mortgages, then had upped payment rates so they could foreclose when those people couldn't keep up. The only winner were the banks who resold the homes multiple times, pulling the same stunt over and over. Then there were those almost unbelievable incidents where the banks tried to foreclose on people who had never taken out mortgages with them! Luckily, the courts are still fair enough to side against the banks in those instances. Why is it you conservatives take the side of powerful moneyed interests against the little guy every friggin' time?


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24 Nov 2015, 10:22 am

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^ So who have they f****d and how? They lend money and profit from the interest. They don't give it away.


It's well known how they had provided poor people with mortgages, then had upped payment rates so they could foreclose when those people couldn't keep up. The only winner were the banks who resold the homes multiple times, pulling the same stunt over and over. Then there were those almost unbelievable incidents where the banks tried to foreclose on people who had never taken out mortgages with them! Luckily, the courts are still fair enough to side against the banks in those instances. Why is it you conservatives take the side of powerful moneyed interests against the little guy every friggin' time?


I'm no fan of big banks, but your comment ignores the fact that for years irrational lending standards have been forced on banks by the federal Community Reinvestment Act. Which bullies them to make loans they may otherwise reject as financially unsound. Concerns about the possibility of mass defaults and foreclosures were assuaged by an administration whose president declared: “We want everybody in America to own their own home.”

And yet again, we see the disastrous results of government meddling in the free market.



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24 Nov 2015, 10:33 am

Considering that Bill and Hillary were in charge when Glass-Steagal died, I don't think I'd trust the thieving b***h.

Just saying.


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24 Nov 2015, 10:36 am

Yeah right....kind of like after Bernie Sanders expressed his views on the marijuana policy, Hilary suddenly started trying to look all liberal when it comes to the marijuana laws but still couldn't bring herself to go as far as agreeing it shouldn't be on the scheduling list.

I don't trust for one minute she'd challenge Big Banks.


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24 Nov 2015, 10:37 am

Shrapnel wrote:
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^ So who have they f****d and how? They lend money and profit from the interest. They don't give it away.


It's well known how they had provided poor people with mortgages, then had upped payment rates so they could foreclose when those people couldn't keep up. The only winner were the banks who resold the homes multiple times, pulling the same stunt over and over. Then there were those almost unbelievable incidents where the banks tried to foreclose on people who had never taken out mortgages with them! Luckily, the courts are still fair enough to side against the banks in those instances. Why is it you conservatives take the side of powerful moneyed interests against the little guy every friggin' time?


I'm no fan of big banks, but your comment ignores the fact that for years irrational lending standards have been forced on banks by the federal Community Reinvestment Act. Which bullies them to make loans they may otherwise reject as financially unsound. Concerns about the possibility of mass defaults and foreclosures were assuaged by an administration whose president declared: “We want everybody in America to own their own home.”

And yet again, we see the disastrous results of government meddling in the free market.


As I recall, it was W Shrub who proclaimed, "We're an ownership society," when he promoted this program. So called "government meddling" does work, if well thought out. That was not done in the previous administration, particularly since they were overly sympathetic toward the banks. But it wasn't Shrub or his minions who suffered for their screw up, but the most vulnerable in society who were sold on a pipe dream.


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24 Nov 2015, 10:44 am

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Raptor wrote:
^ So who have they f****d and how? They lend money and profit from the interest. They don't give it away.


It's well known how they had provided poor people with mortgages, then had upped payment rates so they could foreclose when those people couldn't keep up. The only winner were the banks who resold the homes multiple times, pulling the same stunt over and over. Then there were those almost unbelievable incidents where the banks tried to foreclose on people who had never taken out mortgages with them! Luckily, the courts are still fair enough to side against the banks in those instances. Why is it you conservatives take the side of powerful moneyed interests against the little guy every friggin' time?


I think sometimes conservatives like screwing themselves over...I mean I notice a lot of conservatives who are struggling financially just like many other people yet they'll blindly support the very people and systems that are contributing to those struggles and even get hostile towards anyone who challenges that status quo. It certainly is a strange phenomenon I don't understand.


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