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To: Bid Buster who wrote (381499)	3/4/2009 1:50:38 PM
From: Broken_Clock	Respond to of 436258

On the other hand did you think it could be fixed over night? === certainly not by reappointing a bunch of GS bandits...the same crew that got us here, btw

To: Bid Buster who wrote (381499)	3/4/2009 1:55:22 PM
From: NucTrader	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

And on Bubblevision they just announced the SEC (where HAVE they been -ng-) just penalized 14 firms, including GS, nite, etc. for FRONT RUNNING OPTIONS TRADES. Anyone on this thread trade options (I don't)? Wall Street and almost everything associated with it is corrupt and full of unbridled avarice and deserves to go down hard. IMHO. Betcha we could survive w/o a Wall Street.

To: Bid Buster who wrote (381499)	3/4/2009 2:43:20 PM
From: Trumptown	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

A review of Federal Election Commission records back to 1989 reveals Obama in his three complete years in the Senate is the second largest recipient of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae campaign contributions, behind only Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., the powerful chairman of the Senate banking committee. Dodd was first elected to the Senate in 1980. According to OpenSecrets.com, from 1989 to 2008, Dodd received $165,400 in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac campaign contributions, including contributions from PACs and individuals, followed by Obama, who received $126,349 in such contributions since being elected to the Senate in 2004. In contrast, McCain warned of the coming mortgage crisis as he pressed in 2005 for regulatory reform of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.