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I did listen to this last night, and wish that Elizabeth Warren would be given dictatorial power to straighten out the whole banking sector. She was also on a Frontline special within the last couple of years, explaining how the banks would use their one-sided credit card agreements to increase their income, by jacking up interest rates at the most inopportune times for the cardholders. It seems the robbers that cleaned up on the S&L debacle of the 80s just moved over to the banks and continued their redistribution of wealth scheme (the trickle-up economy).
If their lobbyists hadn't presuaded lawmakers to abandon usury laws in the 70s or 80s, they'd all be in jail by now...but, I think they pretty much own congress.

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George Bailey: This rabble you're talking about, they do most of the working and paying and living and dying in this community. Well, is it too much to have them work and pay and live and die in a couple of decent rooms and a bath?.... with Lionel Barrymore as Henry F. Potter/Linda Navarro.

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