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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-08 03:18 PM Original message |
I don't know a lot about Phil Gramm. |
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WeDidIt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-08 03:20 PM Response to Original message |
1. Here's my favorite ever Phil Gramm line. Put's him in perfect perspective |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-08 03:21 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. Paging Dr. Freud! Paging Dr. Freud! n/t |
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PsN2Wind (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-08 03:30 PM Response to Reply #1 |
6. His love of guns must have come after VietNam |
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burythehatchet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-08 03:25 PM Response to Original message |
3. the wiki page is a very concise explanation |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-08 03:31 PM Response to Reply #3 |
7. Not to be stupid or anything, but why is it a good idea to ... |
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burythehatchet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-08 03:56 PM Response to Reply #7 |
16. The difference is the level of risk |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-08 04:53 PM Response to Reply #16 |
19. Nicely put. |
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burythehatchet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-08 05:04 PM Response to Reply #19 |
21. That was the purpose of the Glass Steagall Act. |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-08 05:17 PM Response to Reply #21 |
24. In other words, the banking industry couldn't be trusted to "police" itself. |
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burythehatchet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-08 05:20 PM Response to Reply #24 |
25. Congressional Research Service Summary: |
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sinkingfeeling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-08 03:26 PM Response to Original message |
4. Add up all of these and you'll have a clear picture of this weasel. |
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Winterblues (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-08 03:26 PM Response to Original message |
5. Wikipedia |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-08 03:34 PM Response to Reply #5 |
9. Why is it a good idea to separate commercial banking from investment banking? n/t |
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Winterblues (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-08 03:51 PM Response to Reply #9 |
14. It obviously was not a good idea. |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-08 03:55 PM Response to Reply #14 |
15. I see. |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-08 05:08 PM Response to Reply #9 |
23. so that investors don't make bad bets with the money of small savers. |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-08 05:20 PM Response to Reply #23 |
26. The same reason Social Security shouldn't be privatized. Well said. n/t |
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Tangerine LaBamba (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-08 03:31 PM Response to Original message |
8. He's part of our history |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-08 03:36 PM Response to Reply #8 |
10. We can make this thread a way to give people information ... |
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malaise (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-08 03:40 PM Response to Reply #10 |
11. Calling Octafish |
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Disturbed (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-08 03:42 PM Response to Reply #10 |
12. We are in a "Mental Recession" & a Nation of Whiners. |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-08 03:47 PM Response to Reply #12 |
13. We need an ad that shows Gramm repeating that over and over! n/t |
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Tangerine LaBamba (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-08 04:17 PM Response to Reply #10 |
17. Why respond? |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-08 04:34 PM Response to Reply #17 |
18. "Those "pesky emails" don't deserve responses." But, they cannot be left unanswered. |
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Tangerine LaBamba (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-08 05:30 PM Response to Reply #18 |
27. Sure, they can |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-08 05:42 PM Response to Reply #27 |
28. Maybe I wasn't clear. I was assuming these emails were sent to a group. |
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Hubert Flottz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-08 04:54 PM Response to Original message |
20. Phil Gramm is one evil, no good, @$$hole... |
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Hubert Flottz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-08 05:04 PM Response to Reply #20 |
22. Union Busting is one of Phil's pet projects. |
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tannybogus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-16-08 05:46 PM Response to Original message |
29. Here's a link to a Molly Ivins' article about Gramm and Dick Armey |
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