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To: bentway who wrote (44696)	10/10/2011 12:45:57 PM
From: Broken_Clock	5 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 119360

They’re people who got rich by peddling complex financial schemes that, far from delivering clear benefits to the American people, helped push us into a crisis whose aftereffects continue to blight the lives of tens of millions of their fellow citizens. Yet they have paid no price. Their institutions were bailed out by taxpayers, with few strings attached. They continue to benefit from explicit and implicit federal guarantees — basically, they’re still in a game of heads they win, tails taxpayers lose. And they benefit from tax loopholes that in many cases have people with multimillion-dollar incomes paying lower rates than middle-class families. ___ I'm confused. Is he talking about Wall St. or Congress and our Presidents? -ng-