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Originally Posted by OccultHawk
Dude, I don't exactly know your story but this mindset that the rich must be protected at all costs is what was used to **** you in the ass.
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Re-read my post. Bush and Obama basically had no choice at the time. Did I like it? Of course not. Did I want to see my 401K and home values crash and burn even worse than they already had? No. It's not
MY mindset. It was the mindset of financial specialists on how to best handle that absolute disaster in the best interests of the US as a whole.
Were the banks wrong for what they did? Of course. Should they all be in jail? Of course. Is it that easy? Unfornuately not based on how the politicians and rich have set up the rules.
We could have let the banks fail, arrest the CEOs, and felt good about it. But millions and millions of people would have lost everything. Another case of the lesser of two evils.