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and those very same VSP won't hesitate to tell us why we need to sacrifice and give up our Medicare and SS because "everyone"must feel the deficit pain...

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and yet the idiot teatards still think Bamz is a Marxist

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Please, next time (and we know there will be a next time), could we 99% at least get a wee bit of <i>vaseline</i>? Thanks in advance.

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"FDIC collected $787 million in settlements by pressing civil claims related to bank failures from 2007 through 2012 — a fraction of its total losses."

When did <i>less than 1%</i> get elevated to the status of "fraction"?

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Excuse me while I warm up my fiddle.

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Have you looked at the 5-year stock charts for big banks? The investors can't afford pitchforks.

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If your uncle was right, we'd be better off today.

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Government of the bankers, by the bankers, for the bankers.

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Even the well-known socialist state, Switzerland, is putting limits on executive bonuses.

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Apparently, Jefferson (and Aaron Burr) were right about Hamilton and a central bank.

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An ad has gone up along one of the main highways in St. Louis, offering 'No appraisal refinancing', so I'm assuming the dodgy loan cycle is starting again.

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To be fair, these guys only stole billions of dollars from taxpayers, it's not like they sounded like an entitled douche in an article they wrote...

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Rich succulent banks are part of Jeebus' plan for America. If he didn't like moneychangers, he would have done something about them before he got the death penalty.

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