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   rikoshayrabbit said, about 1 year ago

   Hey Bart… this is eating my shorts.

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   NoFearPup said, about 1 year ago

   He didn’t do it - it was Barney Frank and Chuck Dodd, among others.

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   motivemagus said, about 1 year ago

   Um, not so much, NoFearPup. Gramm was the one who killed any attempt to legislate derivatives, which were pretty much the primary proximate cause of this economic crash. Frank and Dodd certainly didn’t do anything to stop it (and started going along with it), but Gramm was the one who has been consistently trying (and succeeding) to remove existing constraints and prevent any new ones. After all, isn’t that the power of the “free market?”

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   Dale Hopson said, about 1 year ago

   And didn’t Gramm say we are a country of whiners?

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   dtriedel said, about 1 year ago

   He gave us plenty to whine about.

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   motivemagus said, about 1 year ago

   I just realized the tags are “don” “t” “Have” “a” and “cow!”
   Dale, you’re right. He said we didn’t have an incipient recession, we were just “whiners.”

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   DALLASDAN said, about 1 year ago

   NoFearPup that would be Chris Dodd and motivemagus called you out on your lie. We all know that you belong to the party of hate, fear and ignorance so if you’re not already in Alaska, go north young pup and collect your socialized $1000+ oil dividend from the Queen of know nothings

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   lalas said, about 1 year ago

   WOW! BS’ drawing is almost as ugly as the real Phil Gramm. Almost…

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   lalas said, about 1 year ago

   NFP – you must not have listened to the TAL story explaining what happened. Credit Default Swaps are the reason this situation is THIS bad!

   http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=365