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Are The Banksters Going To Turn A Recession Into A Depression?
DownWithTyranny! —
... As we saw last week when Texas right-wing extremist Jeb Hensarling offered an amendment to the TARP legislation meant to prevent Obama's Treasury Secretary from delegating an observer to attend meetings of the board of directors of institutions that take TARP money, 148 Republicans agreed with him that the government shouldn't interfere with the banksters. (25 Republicans, willing to put the nation's fiscal health before ...
Nationalizing banks
SCSUScholars —
... , Hensarling (R-TX)—Strikes a provision in the underlying legislation that grants the Secretary authority to require a government observer to attend the meetings of the board of directors of any institution that has received TARP assistance. Loses 151-274. I wonder if Geithner will be reporting those government-paid frequent flier miles? ...
