truthdig.com - 1/22/2009
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Somehow, immediately releasing more bailout funds is being portrayed as a self-evident necessity. Amid Barack Obama’s paeans to “new politics,” we’re watching old-school paybacks from a politician who raised more Wall Street dough than any other. READ THE WHOLE ITEM ...
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... on slashing “entitlements,” because everyone must sacrifice, everybody’s “going to have to have some skin in this game” — everyone, that is, except for the president’s Wall Street backers, who are about to receive yet another tranche of billions of taxpayer dollars in what they are now calling openly — and rightly — ...
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