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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: sylvester80 who wrote (25746)	7/12/2008 8:32:52 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 149317

In the S&L collapse of the 80s, 3,000 failed. So by that measure we are doing pretty good I would think. "William Isaac, chairman of the F.D.I.C. in the early 1980s, cautioned against panic. Bank failures so far pale against the 3,000 bank failures in the 1980s, he said. " How many do you think will fail? Frankly, I am worried because there is a big one in WA state that may go.....WaMu.

To: sylvester80 who wrote (25746)	7/13/2008 1:21:36 AM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

One of bush's brothers was involved in one of those failed S and L's; and so was our ex gov. Nothing happened to most of them. Yet they will put a kid in jail for taking a twinki. soemthing wrong with our justice system.