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PostPosted: Wed Apr 07, 2010 12:47 pm 
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PDF of the discussion draft behind Dodd's proposed financial reforms and how to "combat" the mentality of "too big to fail".

Op. Ed. from Peter Wallison on why it sucks and will only make matters worse.


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PostPosted: Wed Apr 07, 2010 3:37 pm 
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Wow. That's a **** terrible idea.

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CT people vote for Peter Schiff.

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I've said it before, and I'll say it again, letting large companies fail is only good in the long term, and since "long term" isn't compatible with "I need to be re-elected in a year" it will never fly.


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Large companies used to fail all the time right up until, oh, I don't know... 16 months ago, and most of the citizens who fall into the "likely voter" category hated the idea of government intervention. That's why you've seen such a sharp rise in vocal conservatism, and that's why Scott Brown won a senatorial election in Massachusetts of all places The only people who advocate what you are talking about are liberal Democrats, and there aren't as many of them as you seem to think. D- for political analysis.

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That PDF made FireFox crash.

*awaits elitist Chrome and Apple user comments*

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Worked fine in Chrome!

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Hah, you just walked into the bear trap!

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I don't get it.

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Screeling wrote:
I don't get it.

And if you're running PDF via FireFox you probably never will.

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I was talking about Arafys' picture.

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Screeling wrote:
I was talking about Arafys' picture.

pfftt. I get SO very little about him in the first place, his choice of pics doesn't even register.

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