(October 28, 2019 at 10:49 pm)Chad32 Wrote: It's kind of crazy that the banks didn't get broken up after the recession in 2008, honestly. Too big to fail is too big to exist. If we're supposed to be capitalists, that means when a business fails, you're supposed to just let it crash and burn. Pull yourself up by your bootstraps, and all that.
That's the kind of political power money will buy you in Washington nowadays: finance all of the elected officials on both sides of the isle and nobody will dare pass any kind of legislation that will reduce you in either power or money. It's basically legalized bribes.
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"If you cling to something as the absolute truth and you are caught in it, when the truth comes in person to knock on your door you will refuse to let it in." ~ Siddhartha Gautama