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Save the Fucking Banks...at any cost!
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Save the Fucking Banks...at any cost!
August 6, 2013 at 5:01 pm
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/17996...-the-banks

Quote:The Detroit Bail-In Template: Fleecing Pensioners to Save the Banks
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RE: Save the Fucking Banks...at any cost!
August 6, 2013 at 5:12 pm
"Too big to fail" shouldn't be in our vocabulary.

If the system brings us to bankruptcy, perhaps bankruptcy is the very thing needed to improve the faults of that system.

But what we really need to start doing is lynching bankers. Maybe that will get some results.
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RE: Save the Fucking Banks...at any cost!
August 6, 2013 at 5:15 pm
Allowing failure is a keystone of a free market. The worst message to send a business is that they'll be bailed out if they fail. It encourages increased risk-taking. The price of a soft landing is a soft recovery. We've had out-and-out depressions where we were back on track quicker.

We didn't get much for our bail out, but at least it cost alot.
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RE: Save the Fucking Banks...at any cost!
August 6, 2013 at 5:17 pm
(August 6, 2013 at 5:12 pm)Faith No More Wrote: "Too big to fail" shouldn't be in our vocabulary.

If the system brings us to bankruptcy, perhaps bankruptcy is the very thing needed to improve the faults of that system.

But what we really need to start doing is lynching bankers. Maybe that will get some results.

One of my favorite quotes.

What is robbing a bank compared with founding a bank? Bertolt Brecht
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RE: Save the Fucking Banks...at any cost!
August 6, 2013 at 5:22 pm
(August 6, 2013 at 5:15 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: The worst message to send a business is that they'll be bailed out if they fail.

Pretty much this.

Your bank is failing? Shutter the doors, pay out the assets and FDIC insurance to depositors, and prosecute wrongdoing to the fullest extent of the law.

Ordinary guy robs a bank, he goes to prison (or worse). The same fate ought to apply to white collar criminals - who do far, far worse damage.
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RE: Save the Fucking Banks...at any cost!
August 6, 2013 at 5:25 pm
If an institution is too big to fail, then maybe we need to cut it down to size.
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RE: Save the Fucking Banks...at any cost!
August 6, 2013 at 5:28 pm
(August 6, 2013 at 5:12 pm)Faith No More Wrote: But what we really need to start doing is lynching bankers.

Well, you know I can think of a lot of reasons to not suggest doing such a thing. After all, I'm opposed to violence, and we all know the NSA might be listening.

But yeah, perhaps someone ought to start doing that - after they start on politicians first.
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RE: Save the Fucking Banks...at any cost!
August 6, 2013 at 5:35 pm
(August 6, 2013 at 5:12 pm)Faith No More Wrote: "Too big to fail" shouldn't be in our vocabulary.

If the system brings us to bankruptcy, perhaps bankruptcy is the very thing needed to improve the faults of that system.

But what we really need to start doing is lynching bankers. Maybe that will get some results.

Go, brave comrade of the revolution. Lynch those bourgeois assholes!
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RE: Save the Fucking Banks...at any cost!
August 6, 2013 at 6:43 pm
Quote: after they start on politicians first.

Skip the middleman - hang the people holding their leash.
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RE: Save the Fucking Banks...at any cost!
August 6, 2013 at 6:53 pm
(August 6, 2013 at 5:35 pm)kılıç_mehmet Wrote: Go, brave comrade of the revolution. Lynch those bourgeois assholes!

I always knew you were a secret commie.

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