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Originally Posted by retmil46
If you open the door to allowing some of the previous regulations to fall by the wayside, you're asking for a political/lobbying fight that will make the one over AHCA look like your six year old daughter's pretend tea party - everyone's going to have their pet regulation they want to do away, until you're left with essentially nothing.
There's one thing that really pissed me off - Bush's Treasury Secretary, who went to Congress and literally tried to blackmail/order them to bail out the banks - was one of, if not the, chief architects in getting Glass-Stegall repealed under Clinton - one of the very guys that helped cause the whole debacle, then sitting in front of Congress ordering them what to do to fix it.  |
Yes, if GW and his Bozo bean counter had just let the free market continue its course, we would have already climbed out of the rubble by now.
Don't forget that B.O. was ALSO in favor of the bail out and has piled on even more of this nonsense in the form of "stimulus." It's still not clear what he stimulated..... oh yeah, it was those shovel ready jobs that even HE admitted later weren't shovel ready.